Let me give a little context to this: Like most informed investors, I did all my research, crunched all the numbers, spent tons of time pretending to book Airbnb properties in the area I am interested in, so that I can get a good indicator of the potential income.

Don't try to pretend it's an investment.

For example, let's for example sake pretend Dalls is the primary market.

And there is no need to guess at it or pretend that Cash Flow has to be completely positive all the time.What I'm trying to do is to bring this horse (the Cash Flow Only crowd) to the water, but I cannot make them drink (educate yourself in the calculations so you don't have to be afraid of a negative cash flow).To me, if you buy based on either positive or negative current cash flow, then you are just not taking into account the true worth of your potential investment.

He was not even pretending by then.

This has created an era of what borrowers are calling “extend and pretend” as lenders are forced to extend loans outside of the contract terms with all sorts of concessions like interest only payments.

He is putting in more work and more money, he should be getting a larger share of the profits, but to pretend like he's giving you 50% is fishy as hell.

Ler me know if you have other questions happy to help.

I'm not even going to pretend I know how to navigate this either.

I don't have the time or patience for stupid stuff and pretending that I can just bluff away that smell!