I was very skeptical at first because I tried this with a competitor and they basically didn't deliver me funding and left me with a huge amount of hard inquiries. 

I know ultimately I could be talking a competitor into investing, but at the same time I wouldn't be benefiting from investments if it wasn't for BiggerPockets.

By providing the best product, best service at an excellent price I am doing more than 90% of my competitors cheaping out.If I can do this, anyone can!!

We have seen competitors, or people in other businesses that compete with TK, posting things like this from fake accounts to deter people from exploring certain types of investing.

I have proposed, enacted and vetted many ideas to invest in ways that take all of these things into account through my work with the big firms. some of my ideas helped them with their bond ratings and long term performance relative to their competitors. 

However, as a former SolarCity/Tesla employee and current competitor, I can see through so many of these "companies" who tout the Tesla Powerwall (or solar roof). 

Differentiate your rental like @John Underwood mentioned- amenities, prime location, benchmark on your competitors.

This knowledge is simply priceless to me not in monetary terms but more to keep competitors far far below me.This is my valuable lesson I will pass on to everyone.To be on top, is not by being the best!

People would quite their jobs, work for a couple of competitors, and end up back at their original company 18 months later at twice the salary they had when they left (the industry buzzword back then was "cross fertilization").

I expect that after using Buildium for a while I will migrate all the accounting stuff to Buildium - but for now I am using it for maintenance requests and tenant screening only.I rejected a number of competitors mostly because they did not fit my needs, but they would fit other peoples needs.In the past month or so I have been very harshly criticizing RentRedi.