Make a habit of checking your competitor's listings periodically and when it makes sense for you, make upgrades and listing updates.

Though, in all honesty, a lot of my competitors have done quite well utilizing black-hat.

Magistrate’s in any future evictions will exploit any lease imperfections to benefit the tenant and today’s competitors are very professional refits so they will exploit your lack of professionalism if you demonstrate it.

I swiped a couple of ideas from your yellow postcards, but I'm just "copying" ideas - without knowing how/why the idea works, I'm nothing more than a hack or a copycat.I have a desire to understand the science and technology behind the marketing piece....but thanks for plugging your product again. :)

I mystery-call my competitors to see what they're doing, and then improve on it.

You are lacking inventory.I got annoyed at a competitor who flips short sales only one day since he outbid me on a house i wanted that was a few houses down from a flip i was working on.

In order to do that, you're going to have to get an idea of what your competitors are doing, and then veer off the beaten path.That's one reason I don't believe in set templates.DFW is about as saturated as a market can get.

Fortune builder's great, I know of a competitor close to same price but they give you a coupon book to use that would save thousands on deals etc and unlimited boots on the ground unlike fortune builder's.

I definitely would not count it as profit considering the clients I mainly consulted with are essentially competitors I'm teaching to be better at taking deals from me. 

Granted, I am opposed to bandit signs and do not use them but we're talking about breaking a municipal ordnance here, not blowing up a competitor's car so he won't get your deal.