is the office holder acquiring clients via marketing or by exercising unfair / anti-competitive "insider" practices?

also, does official enjoy added "perks" that other searchers don't?  weekend / holiday access, secure key-log access from home, early / late access hours, county staff doing the work ("I want to run a test on our database.  Can you tech dept. get me all records pertaining to this address?")

are there undisclosed system flaws that the officials' position makes her / him privy to and which can then be corrected for to the benefit of his / her clients & detriment to your market share?

are his / her advertised rates & quotes consistent with others?  if not, why?  same with turn-around times.

 is he / she using other public resources without paying:  stationary, official computers, xerox, microfilm copier, private assessor files, etc

privileged access to yet-to-be-recorded papers sent by mail & potentially bearing lien matters pertaining to a search...exercise ability for that paper to "accidentally" go to the end of a bureaucratic filing que