When I do a check on a tenant's landlord, I don't pretend I'm interested in anything other than identifying how they know the tenant.

Yes, there are many pretenders out there, I agree whole heatedly, calling themselves contractors because they took a test and passed a test.

I'll start off. Mine would be bulk reo's tapes then multipying until I was up to 100mil. Then I would go to Hong Kong and buy distressed Skyscappers and/or commercial buildings. Please share. The point of this thr...

I pretended like I was an idiot and asked about 100 questions.

Look at what's renting pretend to be interested in renting so you can see what your competition does.

You will learn much like - who are the players in your market, brokers, agents, loan guys, handy men and contractors( just drive by the properties) Take notes and then play "pretend a deal" like paper trading stocks, by using what you are learning to pretend your first deal without risking anythingbut kicking yourself in the pants for not actually doing it for real, should it turn out to be a GREAT deal!

Some people pretend to be a potential tenant but I've found that if you just level with the landlord you can get some good information.

Ive had this happen many times, or they will act like everything is fine, then just not move their car out of the driveway, or lock the door and pretend no one is home, or come and flip out, either way.

Pretend you are not going to live there, run the numbers with what you can rent it out at now since no one can predict the future.

I dislike the clunkiness of pretending to be someone else - reminds me of when the jig was up for the Wizard of Oz My, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain".Tenants know I'm the owner and "the buck stops here"....for good and bad things.