The broker's slow motion might help scare off competition.

Over the past 10 years of investing in Real Estate I have gotten more and more frustrated with the utility bills and waste generated from the tenants in my buildings.I have since worked closely with a micro wind-turbine manufacturer out of California and have really concentrated on making the idea of having GREEN power & GREEN reuse on my buildings a reality.Well, about 4 months ago, I joined an idea competition on a website called IDEABLOB, hosted by a credit card company.

This tax is designed to protect tax-paying businesses from unfair competition. 

I have called US Bank and they are competitive, but I wanted to get info from other banks.  

I have done several extensive competitive analysis of residential property management companies in Florida. 

I've optioned many estate properties, purchased fractional interests and probably the king of buying property "pizza-by-the-slice." 

Sounds like you have a great competitive advantage that you can put to good use.

There are good opportunities, but competition is increasing.There are some large players in the market who have their own realty companies and funds. 

Taking your grandfathers understanding and gut instinct on what a good property is and a good model to determine return on investment and you will have a competitive advantage over many other real estate investors.

They compete with each other for the exact same pool of borrowers, so it's not probable that they will ever be wildly different (as essentially identical products), nor is it probable they will ever be exactly identical (due to competitive forces).