Jeff, the competition in snow removal is too big, you need to do it quick, before it melts, I may not succeed!

Lots of competition in the area.  

Finally, since my market (FL) is so competitive I'm concerned that by my conservative underwriting guidelines I'll never win a bid because so many entities are out there throwing money around and paying full asking price.

Some lenders do less but you still pay PMI, but with the program that MACU has(had) they do portfolio loans at 10 & 15% down and since they hold them in house there is no PMI and interest is still competitive around 4%.

People thinks there's too much competition but all someone need is to find 1 subdivision with 500-1000 homes that has a high turnover of home owners and market to them every other week for a whole year.

I manage property in all three.But the competition is fierce if you are not on the ground in the market.Have you thought about a turnkey investment?

I have educated myself on wholesaling strictly through BP and Google as my only mentors as I don't expect anyone to mentor me in a cutthroat industry where duplicating your efforts only breeds competition.

Now, someone might say hit the area where there is the least competition, like probate, but there is no area where RE investors don't crawl through possible deals, IMO.

The key is buying at such a discount that even a moron will see that they are a good deal.Some of my local competition "sell" newbies quite a bit that a property is a "good" deal when it is far from it.

They should be detailed (or long-tail) enough to have little competition, which will make them easier to get at the top of the search engine rankings.