We've been too busy with our property management company (good problem to have) for me to have the free time to go off pretending I am smarter than I am and looking up mortgage delinquency rates / forecasting Federal intervention, etc.

This isn't the same as normal course of business and should not be treated as such.I think that instead of digging in our heels to pretend this is no big deal or digging in our heels to panic - there is a median we should follow that should have us all push for a more innovative approach to this that helps us all.  

For example wire fraud has been very prevalent in the form of hackers hijacking a title agent's email account in order to steal closing funds from a buyer by impersonating the closer and giving the buyer fake wiring instructions. this has been the biggest one and now more recently we're seeing title fraud getting more and more common, such as with scammers pretending to be the seller of unencumbered land they don't own and making off with the money after closing, leaving the buyer, the actual owner and the title company wondering what happened.  

Two things can be true - don't muddle them together and pretend it's all the same.

The seller can pretend to play dumb.

We pretend like we never had a lease or lived there and move out within three days and she wouldn’t go after us for breaking a lease or the “nonpayment.”

So does that also mean that as long as the sale of a property is after November 18th (pretend I get a property under contract in 2 weeks with a 30 day closing) you can get approved for 5% financing? 

I don't pretend to know what you want or need, but I am guessing it is more than a laundromat in Ohio.

If I’m going to bake cookies from scratch I know I can’t do it in 10 minutes, so why pretend on a contract that I can?

They hide stories that shed a bad light on certain people, they squelch opinions (and even scientific facts) they disagree with, and then they pretend to be open platforms.