Go on VRBO and check out your competitors bookings.

Each lazy pot head collecting government rent vouchers is one less competitor and one more customer.Hope this helps and good luck with your real estate ventures!

This is all from our sweet little competitors sending out direct mailers and they go online to vrify and find us.So Send mailers at your own peril without having a website!

Lowes is closer to me and will price match and beat competitor price by 10% (same brand and model).

Today he sees an advertisement for the competitor's storage facility.

Then you measure and add up the total square footage of each competitor and divide it by the population in the 3 and 5 mile radius.

The nearest competitor has terrible reviews, the visibility would be perfect for a freeway sign, the price of the land is reasonable for 3 acres plus a house. 

Quote from @Timothy Allen: It could be they take offense, it could be they don't want to be compared to another local management company and competing for your business, or it could be they are just really busy and don't have time to keep communicating with you when there's no guarantee of your business.in the future, I recommend you not let the managers know that you will be spreading your properties around to competitors.

There hasn't been a hurricane in Jacksonville in like forever.No silly Dallas/Houston heat or humidity.I'm buying deals here in my sleep.Zero vacancy.And I have a lot of rentals.But then I don't want any competitors...so...don't come to Jacksonville!

He is surrounded by a lot of the big heavy wholesale hitters in the Arizona/Phoenix market, and what's great about those guys/gals is even though they are all competitors they still share information with each other to help each other exceed further in their business.