Is there a dominant player out there that does things generally better than others?

Outside of a few players, I see a lot of banks not interested in projects above 2M.

I have JV'd on a couple of NPNs and the returns honestly are not that much better since they are trying to get 20%-30% returns and the margins are getting squeezed with all of the new players trying to get in the market...just like flipping. 

I initially wrote "You should get educated on the basics of how real estate works... the players, representation, contract law..." then I realized you are a real estate broker.

The REIA is definitely the place to be to meet all the real players in the local market.

I am a firm believer in "What goes 'around...comes around" and I wish no calamity on Clayton Morris and wife Natali Morris, Larry Blessman, Nicole Meckley, Linzi Del Conti,Kate Federico (All directly connected to Morris Invest and party to this transaction).Last but by no means, certainly not least, and likely a major player in this SCAM Herb Whaley and allegedly his wife Natalie Bastin at OceanPointe Properties in Indianapolis, Indiana.And Hope against Hope, Clayton Morris could save his reputation not by hiding from his responsibility behind his LLCs , but make everyone he has harmed whole again for those who deserve to be recompensed for the harm done to them.

Also, as you are seeing more and more crowd funding players, investors are getting used to seeing the deal rather than investing in a fund. 

Both team players, and business owners.

Typically these are buyers with lots of cash sitting around from a high income job or business or a 1031 exchange that sold off houses and now wants a small multi property in a high quality area.The bigger players in the hundreds of units some ore UHNM (ultra high net worth) or they are syndicators.

or unwritten rules between the bigger players not to run the bids up.