Be honest, trust worthy and don’t pretend to know more than you do!

Here’s the thing that you must realize… This isn’t free money…The lender takes on a certain degree of risk in exchange for the possibility of a return on their investment..Pretend you’re the lender… You lend a young man $200,000 cash to buy ahouse… In exchange, he has to pay you $1000 a month… (not a bad deal for the young man, considering the fact that without this loan he wouldn’t have the money to buy the house… For just $1000 a month, the seller handover the keys to a house… that’s A huge opportunity… That many countries in the world don’t get to enjoy this luxury of finance!)

That's all wholesaling is, it's brokering real estate except instead of being up front & telling the distressed seller that you'll sell their property for X amount & take X amount as your commission / fee you are taught to lie to the seller & pretend you are going to buy the property while you secretly attempt to "assign" your contract.It doesn't work.

What did he know, or even pretend to know, that the mentor could use - ultimately, what value was the apprentice to the mentor?

I simply could not bear to pretend I wanted all the things so many of my friends very obviously wanted and were willing to give up so much for.

Being someone who has always compartmentalize my finances I was wondering if it was smart to pretend I was my own renter and pay myself monthly into a reserve, mainly the CapEx and Repairs percentage that I would apply to an investment property.

I am doing pretend deal analysis for practice and fun on random properties I see on Zillow.

You can sneak around the issue and pretend these are insurance inspectors or try to sell the condo sight unseen, but this will be a lot easier to just let the tenant know your intentions. 

Solutions 2 through 9 are variations of the "pretend God is an idiot" theme and I'll just skip.

(and trust me they will pretend to LOVE the place and throw stories or feelings at you)Don’t be that guy and if seven walk through and you only get one to fill an applicationyou might want to reconsider your pre-screening process. my pre screening process saves me time from showing people the house who won’t like it and aren’t at all qualifiedBefore you even agree to show them the property, ask the right questions!