I'm in sales so they tend to tone it down to me personally but they absolutely at times blast my company and "threaten" to create a competitor.

If you do buy the worst property in the best neighborhood, you don't want it to remain the worst property in the neighborhood - there's a point at which you want to do a better job of attracting customers than your competitors, and that's going to be difficult to do if your place is a dump relative to the rest of the neighborhood. 

(even when they don't fill out a contact form) as well as visitors to your competitors.

Yes I did go to the auction and was able to pickup 2 properties, the deeds will be mailed in couple of weeks.It was a great opportunity - more than 400 properties and less crowd/competitors (July 4th week, ppl took days off)

Think about the advantage of being on the opposite schedule from America, with a local partner to cover business hours you could utilize the time where your competitors are sleeping, that would be an asset factor in my opinion.Best,

If you marketed to lis pendens properties, you might be a little quicker than the next competitor sending our mailers for the NTS stage of foreclosure.

Washer and dryer inclusion may get you an extra $25-$50 a month, but you'd have to check what your competitors are offering as many apartments offer in-home and/or on-site laundry.You can also consider LED lighting, pet rent, storage rental as other ways to add value and increase rental income.

in many instances I would be funding 5 to 6 competitors in one city.. talk about having to work in a confessional

Securities regulation compliance, transparency, investor vetting, professional competition from well financed competitors to name a few.  

All the bank can say is no...maybe their competitors won't.