Make your bed.Review your prior year.Do your energy audit.Complete your envisioning exercise.Assign your NEXT LEVEL targets for all aspects of your life.Create your habit tracker and scorecard, to know if you're winning the game.Schedule the SPACE to review and keep score.Didn't have time to do these things?

If you have documentation saying you wanted white paint, and they paint it black, it's on them, if not, who wins on he said, she said, and who doesn't have hard feelings afterward?

Learn from others, but don’t give up to others.10) The Win-Win Factor – My first exposure to real estate was meeting a guy who invested in pre-foreclosures.  

If you can find a way to better secure and grow your retirement savings, that is a win.  

If you analyze the three choices (traditional, Roth, or none), you win if you lower taxes and lose if you don't. 

No, you can’t sue him...well you can but you won’t win anything.

If you can get paid (even minimally) to get some experience and exposure, I'd call that a win.  

Any chance we can work a win win deal and work owner financing with a 5 year balloon.

More importantly, will these owners go to market with their properties after not being able to win the lucky ticket?  

Your agent should try to find out what the winning bids were on the homes that you put offers on so that you have an idea of what you're up against.