The landlord can throw the guys stuff in the garbage and pretend it never existed.

1)  Pay off your house completely so you would be mortgage free (let’s pretend that’s your mortgage balance)2)  Buy a 250k multi family that brings you 1k per month in cash flow  Close to big city (1hr away )3) buy 10-20 single family  ( which is almost the same as   The same amount of units Multifamily )that cash flow’s $200 per door ,  which would roughly give you $2000- 4000 cash flow per month

Try the placebo effect thing if that doesn't work she might actually be seeing thing or pretending to be seeing things.

In her mind you can use the deposit to cover her rent for August and she will save her money so she can use it as a downpayment on the next unit.If you tell her you don't intend to renew at the end of the lease, she will pay August rent but she won't pay September rent.Let's pretend she pays August rent on the 8th.

However, there's an interesting property situation that my mom's living in, and I used it as an opportunity to pretend-crunch some numbers.

Professional caretakers milking benefits have a long history of lying about the severity of conditions to help people like this stay in the home and continue making a living off them.If you really think this woman is insane, no one is being served by keeping her there except whoever's pretending to take care of her.

If he just talks big and pretends there's no difference between scraping unpainted popcorn finish and painted popcorn finish, he's not the right guy.

Get a friend to pretend to be a new tenant if you are uncomfortable doing it alone, but you need to know the condition of that place. 

Lets pretend that it does not need any major work, just minor repairs. 

My opinion is that everybody has a few hours a day that is just wasted on TV, the internet, social media or pretending to be busy...