I'm a CPA who does a fair amount of work in the real estate industry and owns multiple residential rental properties as well.

All in all, multiple visits for mostly piddly items totaling a lot of money. ugh. 

whats best strategy to beat multiple offers??!!

I have bought homes with multiple liens before but there has always been enough cash going out to cover both liens.

:)My husband and I would like to purchase umbrella insurance We *think* we need multiple policies, possibly 3 of them, broken down by who owns what.   

So, we actively engaged in letting the universe know what we wanted.

So stay engaged and ask all kinds of questions as well as take a look at the blogs and the pod cast. 

You can buy tax liens however that doesn't mean you own the property... once there are multiple consecutive years of taxes not being paid then the property will goto tax-deed auction in which anyone can place a bid.

You have to pay more money, take another test, and I'm sure are held to stricter continuing education requirements, given you can / are now responsible for anyone under you.I can see where if you're doing multiple transactions a year it can be helpful. 

I am on the board of two self managed HOA's (Lakeview /Wicker Park) and need assistance dealing with two separate issues:  #1 Noise disturbance in commercial space  #2 VERY delinquent assessments by a single owner Ive attempted to engage two firms already but somehow these issues seem to not be attractive to represent.