I'll also give a shout out to Miauu and all his VERY useful scripts. http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/miauus-script-pack-vol-2 some of Miauu's tools are redundant now as Max has the feature natively, but his script packs are definitely worth checking out. And Scriptspot in general. Max's scripting community has…
Also further recommendations: one of the various "Set Subobject to Working Pivot" scripts, as well as miauu's Visual Pivot Placer (love this one especially)
Max's snapping is pretty good. Just takes some getting used to as poopipe mentioned. I beef up my snapping tools with the free WallWorm tools. The Nudge tools are EXTREMELY useful. For the nudge tools I have it hotkeyed to my arrow keys so I can move 1 grid unit in XYZ with a key press. I've started to use Blender recently…