Pretend you don't have that cash. 

You get the seller (usually a wholesaler) enthusiastically pushing a teardown on any investor who will listen to him, insisting that it's worth all kinds of money in the right hands, downplaying the renovation costs and time and pretending to all kinds of fixer knowledge by self-importantly throwing out things like, "You've just gotta skim coat that!"

You can't stay in this game for years and years and pretend you're an innocent forever, not when the landlord has become sucb an archetypal figure of deceit and greed in our society.

How about save the $5K and just pretend you did it since the people you are paying are just pretending they are doing something anyway.I purchased a house where the guy died in a lawn chair in the backyard.

I also think banks will be very slow to foreclose this time, they will extend and pretend again + all the new consumer friendly foreclosure rules (2008 they dumped REO on the market all at once which tanked prices)...this will prevent large amounts of inventory piling up.But I do wonder if the economy every really truly recovered from 2008, or was it just entirely due to the Fed keeping zero interest for 7 years & pumping trillions in through QE (this monetary policy last 7 years is totally unprecedented as far as I know, never been tried before in USA history, so we are in uncharted waters from this respect).  

& always drew my "future dream homes" & pretended to create my bedroom into my own "house".

Lots of folks at home - Dems/Repubs - think that he should be campaigning at home for the presidency instead of trying to do so in another continent (and then pretending that the trip is just a fact finding mission).His speech in Germany proved that he is not there just to get information, but to get on the covers of newspapers and to share his "message" with a world audience.

Pretending that your expenses will be better than hundreds of thousands of professional landlords across the country is a dangerous game.

I don't pretend to understand all of the tax issues, but I do have a great accountant that tries his best to educate me!

Are these hard money lenders for real or are they just pretenders?