A quick way to separate the real investors from the pretenders trying to be something they are not is to ask for a recent bank statement in their name valid within the last 30 days.

In addition, you don't yet have enough experience to evaluate a deal and are not yet well enough connected in the local REI community to know who is for real and who is a scammer, who knows what they are doing and who pretends they do.

Get a book or 2, print the landlord tenant law for your state/county off the internet, go to a few apartments near your home and ask for a copy of their lease (pretend you want to live there) and you will have the basic building blocks for all that you need to get started. hope that helps. good luck.  

I have went a step further and pretended I want to sell them a house so that I could see about what they were offering, (and if they offered enough I might sell) and they dont call back, maybe they look and see the house is owned by a trust and figure it out, I dont know. 

Other than that, it was another typical day at the office (deployed to Al Udeid)1) Devoured vast amounts of BP knowledge while pretending to work :)2) Searched for potential properties thru MLS, Homepath, & HUD still trying to determine actual ARV for my market3) Working on my website4) Finishing the establishment of my first syndication group in ATL

They are happy with their leased luxury cars and credit card financed vacations and think they are wealthy because they are pretending so long they have fooled themselves.

They act like they have no clue what you're asking and might even pretend it's harder to get than it is.

Then you might get a letter from them, saying that they've done undercover buys and if they come back and find other illegal activity they will seize your property, which forces you to file eviction.I think, without any proof and if they pay well, I would likely pretend that I don't know, unless I hear it from someone else as well. 

And I'll use an example of a property, I'll pretend it is one in my area listed about 50k, but you offered 40k.I'm not an agent, but I can tell you from the position of being the son of an agent it was always inconvenient.That agent will generate 2.5% ($1,000) on that transaction if it actually closes.

Let's pretend this is office coffee we’re talking about.