Sort of like you being a football player and your uncle the coach.

Shortly after getting countersued, CL introduced their own "map view" in October 2012 which works great: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/04/craigslist-rolls-out-new-map-view-feature-for-apartment-searches/But since CL was about 4 years behind on this feature, the other players probably took 10% of the market share, and are still growing.It remains to be seen if Craiglist's new functionality will eventually force everyone else out of business.Personally, I like the online application feature offered by PadLister, so I will keep using it for now.

In many instances you will be competing with agents for the same properties.

Your competion will be your floor, so do not be afraid to go the extra mile with details, photos, etc.

With vacancies dropping in Los Angeles Andrew, the professional management running this building doesn’t appear terribly competent if the effective rent has been 75%.

This business is hard enough without having to compete with criminals.

We have run 97% occupancy for several years and so have competing properties.

While you may think banks just compete against each other there are what we call "Affiliate Banks" these are banks that do backroom business with another bank.

First, you will be trying to reconcile two probably competing sets of criteria - ie. finding an ideal property as an investment versus finding an ideal property for your daughter and her friends.

As far as finding property with carpet and paint only it will be tough as home buyers compete for those properties too.The home buyers are happy to live in it and get small equity say 10k where you can't do that on your flip plus it's easy for them to get a loan to purchase a property with minimal work.With cash you need to look at properties needing a bunch of work.Try to find the most run down property in a great area.Buy it cheap for cash and fix it up to sell.If you don't want to take yourself away from your main business you already have you might look at wholesaling properties to start.Less risk just getting started and you can learn the ropes.You can use hard money for flips to preserve cash but the hard money takes high interest and points and only gives money for repairs in draw schedules so it drags out your rehab and resale which costs more money with your loan.You could focus instead of whole tailing.Fix the property us some and sell to an investor for cash with a small markup.Since they have cash there will be no loan red tape with a retail buyer.Less margins but more volume.Hope it helps.