After I told him I would add $500 to his commission if he can get it done without the "bidding against myself" bs, the "other offer" mysteriously disappeared.This has happened to me too much.I try to look at this reoccurring dilemma quantitatively to provide me with the logical reasoning I need to keep me from flipping over the nearest table every time I get the sense I'm bidding against myself.Say a house is listed and untouched at $50,000 and I come in at $45,000.

Ok i've been trying to do my due diligence and research this mysterious technique.

It is no mystery there is a lot of confusion over Dodd-Frank.

The use of this field is mostly a mystery to me.Section L is very important in that it's directly referencing the "tax basis". 

@Jeff Gates When a company has a terrible business model that is ultimately the reason that its clients suffer millions of dollars of losses, they deserve what they get.Why anyone other then their attorneys are defending them is a mystery.

Avoid Private Money Lenders who mysteriously contact you out-of-the-blue without context or explaining how they found you.

Sounds like turnaround time could still be a bit of a mystery, with the biggest potential delay coming with appraisal.

The universe works in mysterious ways.

If you paid market for the property and it does not matter who you bought it from.. if you want better deals. you need to do your own direct marketing buy them before the wholesalers get them then the wholesaler sell to the turn key contractors then they do their thing there has to be financing cost in there.. then there is sales load.. non of this is a mystery.. its still amazing that they can do all this and still bring product to market and your making 5 to 7% I call that a homerun.  

The title co. should be no mystery, I assume they are designated in the contract.