Your big box brokerages will pretend like they are ok with it, but they won't support you.

Like most GenZ/millennial-run unicorns, it's trying to monetize political expression and activism by pretending to offer a service, in the same way Facebook and Twitter monetized "free speech".

I know that sounds crazy, but let's just pretend that is how the universe works.You should instead be storing your reserves away so the banks and private lenders will feel much better about lending you money on your next deal.I hope you can see the subtlety there and how shifting from savings for fear to savings for abundance will dramatically change your business.We don't use our own money in our deals.

Also even if you are right (unlikely but let's pretend) in past recessions real estate hasn't even crashed the two aren't directly correlated outside of 2008 which was real estate specific.

You do not pretend you are the buyer and then run to find a real buyer.

If you pay them off faster, once they are paid off pretend you still owe the money and put that into a separate account for your down payment.The $1600 you are paying for the loans will make a huge difference in terms of what you can afford to borrow.

I mean, ... a fella like me has absolutely zero personal info online and I’ve deleted my account / changed the name probably 7 or 8 times in the last 5 years (this is the longest I’ve ever kept it) simply because I like having people know nothing at all about me but... it’s just as easy to pretend to be awesome,... likely easier in fact.

Stricken this word from your lexicon as a sponsor and pretend the word does not exist. 

I don’t know and I don’t pretend to know but I find it hard to believe that if this stretches out for 18-24 months, which I think is realistic, that there won’t be some ingrained differences in people.

Bought a duplex out of state for my mother - she covers the mortgage and all expenses while AirBnBing out the other side - I only bought it to subsidize her; pretend it doesn't exist.