Miss two player on my team.

Competing on price for MFD product in major population centers right now doesn't seem to be worth the effort.

The Eagles have picked up some good players in the off season.

So far to my understanding, the main players I need in my RE team is a RE attorney and an investor friendly title company.

Check out this thread:http://www.biggerpockets.com/topics/52706-competing-against-the-big-boys?

Meaning do you try to limit their exposure to the deal or just make sure that you are dealing with a competent one?

I just hung out with big players in the game and asked a lotta questions.

Even then, the ratings agencies were well behind the wheel on downgrading the debt of the big players who held a lot of the debt (AIG, Merrill, Citi, etc) I read that Countrywide went bankrupt after never reporting a quarterly loss during the crisis!

You have to price your homes properly in order to compete if not you will find your self reducing the price 2 or 3 times and ticking of your seller.

Their client,you the investor or buyer thinks he/she isn't doing their job but it really all falls back on the banks for not hiring enough competent folks and properly training them. 3 years into to the mess we know it's going to be a while before they clean out their inventory so why don't they hire folks to make everyone else's life easier and they can more easily sell these homes.