When you find a deal, don't be a pretender and screw around.

I've always liked the advice to pretend you have no cash to invest and structure the deal accordingly.

The intent is clear in that blog, however ... he makes a false offer to a homeowner (baits them) and then pretends to discover problems later in order to "negotiate" (the switch). 

Want to become credible as an SEO marketer, don't do it by stealing my content and pretend it is you that came up with it!

The person that taught me about swapping out cars made over 7 million that year.I won't pretend to be an expert but it didn't take long to repair my credit.

And lastly, my advice would be to pretend you are looking for a place to rent in your area and search on google.

Although I went to law school, I'm not a lawyer, nor do I pretend to be one, but I am a licensed Broker (licensed for 30+ years) and I'm pretty confident of what I've shared in this issue...

You really should do some research before you make such insulting remarks.The fact of the matter is short sale investor fraud does exist and when investors like yourself try to pretend it is not happening you look really foolish.

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).