Cash is the best method for beating out your competition and can be less costly in the long run.  

Cash is great, as you have a competitive advantage with a cash offer and don't incur additional closing costs.

But that pendulum swung back in Denver and with crazy low interest rates attracting more buyers, it's back to the throw-money-at-it season.Not to toot our own horn, but it does speak to the necessity of having a strong agent who knows what strings to pull to put their buyer in the best position possible in this competitive market.

Expensive and competitive!

Especially in a competitive market like Columbus, Ohio

i.e. people person vs numbers person, Meyers Briggs, etc.The people that do well in stocks tend to be highly educated, decades long stamina, world class numbers and analytical skills, readers not talkers, life long learners that can connect many global dots together into a strategy.But most run on emotions and that's why the only winner this week was JPM/GS on the VIX.Now if you meant trading, things get worse, as 90% or more fail...If you can't handle high amounts of risk, stress, losses, etc.stick to real estate or hire a world class broker that has your back.If you still want to invest, I would recommend going short NOT LONG until we hit bottom!!!

I don't believe this is actually a common practice of listing agents, or at least it hasn't been in any of the markets I've worked in. 80%+ of my business comes from representing investors on the buy side, and we win in a lot of competitive bidding situations.

Ominous things are happening across the country zoning wise and the competition is exploding. take a lot of the happy thoughts on this form with many grains of salt and spend sometime reading the last few months of posts on the short term rental and you may understand a lot better.

No competition and you can negotiate with them.

That said, competitive bidding could push it up well beyond that.