RE as a community we always talk about the wins.

My pest control guy hands them his card for future treatments they can pay for.

I've submitted offers for clients that are something akin to what you offered and we still lost as the other buyer just offered more money than what my client was willing to spend.Have your agent find out what the winning offer was and hopefully you can get some clarity on what it will take to win the bidding war.

These students will probably fight and win even though I took the necessary steps prior to them moving in.

You have the winning hand here.As a landlord you have to not react to the "I have an attorney." 

Wow, this can be a can of worms, but it is he/she that brings solutions to problems that wins the deal and makes profit doing so.

. = $100K- interest free credit cards for 21 months with 0 interest = $75KMy thought process was to buy with HELOC and cash and rehab with 0% interest credit cards. 

Looking forward to collaborating with you to create success for all of us, and win-win situations for tenants, sellers, and all involved in or affected by our investing and our transactions and businesses.

I have found working with appraisers to be the biggest wild card, glad there are some investor friendly folks like yourself near by. :)

I used credit cards to do the remodels and have high credit usage and which balances I still have, of about $80K.