When submitting an offer on a property in a competitive market, what techniques besides increasing the offer do you use to make your offer more appealing to the seller and increase your chances of winning?

@Lloyd Hudson - congrats on winning the audit and having a good accountant on your team.

There are some new players in the game that will do long term financing on investment property based predominantly on the assets performance, but you will pay for them.

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What I have seen is Investors will usually put property with riskier tenants win one LLC, but not to exceed more than a certain threshold, let's say 2M in value. 

The winning notes are there to be found, but they are surrounded by a lot of dogs.

But if you do NOT owner-occupy then it is actually very likely 25-30% down for a multifamily (as @Jon Holdman points out, it is 20% for single family rentals) This is something I'm considering, the property is in my town and could be a big win if I can land it!

The house was just sitting empty for a year so to me it’s a win win all the way around.

It's a win-win.The difficult part is proving you are worth the trouble.

Try to negotiate a win-win for everyone.