This all points to less competition for home shoppers, but make no mistake, the housing market remains clearly tilted in favor of sellers,” says Zillow senior economist Jeff Tucker.

Basically my question to any of you is when you know you are buying in a competitive market, and in my case, you know what the competition is paying, what are other ways to "tilt the scale" in your favor so that your offer looks more appealing?

I had not thought of that as a strategy, but this post prompted me to drop in.On one hand, you are incentivizing what you're paying for in the first place.On the other, you keep the talent happy and turn down other clients until you get a 4-star, they don't get and then they get salty.Mixed feelings but the bad precedent tilts me towards no.I created a good relationship with my vendors and think I take care of them based on how they treat me and my properties.I give a:Birthday giftEnd of Year Holiday giftMothers dayWhen cleaning ran over their "expected time" due to messy guestsall cash, always appreciated

Is it tilt wall construction?

Otherwise, a super majority, a left tilting populace getting bluer by the day... 

And don't waste time tilting at windmills - find out where STRs are welcome and relatively un-regulated and go there and make money, while providing a great life experience for others....

I won't be investing in the riskiest/most supportable asset subclasses such as hotels, and tilt my portfolio the ones that have historically been more stable such as multifamily and single-family housing.

Often the issue materializes when you attempt to sell and a better title examiner discovers it... and yes then you own it and that issue is yours to fix, if you can.Where I get confused in this process is this idea that I am at all liable for the mistakes of 1,2, or 3 title companies and that a lawsuit would not be tilted in my favor if an issue ever arose regarding clouded title.

I don’t know if I am looking in the right places but I wanted to see if anyone has suggestions of where or what type of group/firm would help me evaluate and compare costs of going with a different building system, such as metal vs CMU vs tilt up or comparing roof systems and breaking down the pros and cons etc.

That definitely tilts the scale in favor of Buildium for me.