As a competitor I will not comment on them publicly.

We have several local competitors that claim they can manage Class C properties, but we have many owners eventually terminating them to hire us - telling us about all the things that went wrong.In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.It's often a case of not doing enough research, as they don't know what they don't know!

., to add to what @Jay Hinrichs said, you will also find hard money lenders saying they are private lenders.You should go to local REIA's and speak with friends and fam that are may have money or are already in the RE industry.Yes HML started to coin that a few years back as a marketing ploy  IE give the illusion they are cheaper than their competitors or easier to borrow from.. 

Get the right terminology ("investment property mortgage, not owner occupied"), move on to a competitor, and get a better rate.

Your competitor, someone with a broker license, can beat your purchase price by 3%.

Newcomers are generally not afforded this help since new competitors are not exactly welcomed. 

That's left up to the investors to manage, all five of them, and to haggle over the crumbs left after the sale and taxes.At the same time, the extremely solid place I'm buying is remote managed by an absentee computer guy who's just tired of dealing with his tenants and last visited his property from six states away five years ago.With competitors like these, who needs friends?

But the truth is, too many of your competitors are sending out some iteration of the same thing.

I can go back to my manufacturer and give them a specific competitor to look at.Thanks,  For that much I will switch manufacturers.That's why I like numbers. 

Thus, new competitors can have a significant impact on investment returns.Multifamily Real Estate InvestmentsMultifamily competitors don’t just spring up out of nowhere, because space, zoning, and permits are limited.