It keeps the o-os and the newbies away, so there's less competition.  

@Jerry Brown  Dayton has lots of great properties and there is financing available with 3 1/2 % down and competitive rates at a local credit union.

This will give the house much larger scale and stand out against your competition.

That sounds awful and I would assume make the property much less competitive.

It really depends on the situation.REO's with a lot of competition the banks want cash offers. 

There seems to be less competition as most small time investors don't have the cash to put 20% down for bigger building and they can cash flow really well.

Reading and learning all I can; without challenge growth is not accomplished.Very encouraged by the obvious close knit community you all have here in such a competitive line of work.  

Might not be easy as someone would be teaching you to be their competition. 

Varying your anchor text also helped.While it isn't hard to rank #1 for something like "Anchor Reply Noah Boat" (you'll have zero competition), it is getting increasingly difficult to rank for commercialized terms (such as "buy my house").

The sec8 voucher holders act as if their "**** don't stink" and are difficult to attract and get due to the competition from other landlords.