You're telling the seller that neither offer is final, inviting them to go so far as (and they will) combine the best (to them) of each offer, and thus taking control over the process away from you.

The biggest knock on BC for investing is that rent control makes cash flow a challenge. 

I have two keys... a master key that opens every door on the system and a control key so I can change the cores. 

I would just explain what rent control is. 

Is there any rent control? 

the questions you are asking are not controlled by the state necessarily but both the feds and local cities. 

Three things:1) After we moved when I was a child, my parents rented out our old house so I had seen RE work before.2) I am a mathematician and I'm compulsive about running the numbers, so I knew it was a good deal.3) I always knew that I wanted to get rich.

When my parents passed I sold a house for $375k that originally cost $5.5k and another that had cost $15k for the same price. 

I've used them for years.https://forgetrust.com I also use Forge Trust for my self directed ROTH IRA with checkbook control. 

Similarly, you can find businesses on Yelp and Google that don't give (advertising) business to Yelp and Google.But if we want to balance out the force, sure, here's Darth Vader's mortgage broker directory (which also lists folks who do not send business to the parent-lender that sponsors the particular directory in question):https://www.rocketmortgage.com...If you know of something like that, that knows broker from banker (in California and some other states, that's concurrently also the difference between a fiduciary and a salesperson), that isn't run/maintained/etc by a major national wholesale lender, I'll happily plug that instead when this comes up in the future.