In my opinion, no one else is competition. 

If you are going to buy cash, you should be looking at houses that can only be purchased all cash to take full advantage, eliminate retail competition, and get the biggest discounts.

Where will competition come from?

The best way to understand Europe is that the EU has rendered all competition to a fiscal nature.

There are a lot of start up costs and also competition with the major soft drink companies. ( Stainless steel tanks, trucks, advertising, bottles, labels, marketing, health department regs, etc. )As I am an idiot when it comes to real estate, do you have to 1031 all at one time or over time?

The recession didn't hit us as hard as other metro areas and right now there is a ton of competition in the residential arena.

It is competitive both finding good deals and selling.

After reaching out to them, Google basically told me that I had to start spending more money to be competitive and get more activity. 

I've found that rehab projects are more competitive than almost any other type of deal in today's market.

I definitely noticed some crazy competition when I was searching there.