As for your letters (more opinions are about to arrive) they are EXACTLY what I thought they would be; that regurgitated garbage everyone who pretends they are a marketer mails out thinking just because, "I have cash, I close quick, I buy As-Is, I, I, I do this, I do that, Look at me, me, me" people are going to call them up and throw deeds at them.No USP.

Let's pretend it is exactly $1 Million, then 75% of that is $750,000, which is the cost of the development.

Why would you pretend to be the property manager?

Stand in the kitchen and pretend you're a mom (maybe you already are one).

In short, pretend you are just business partners :)-Christopher

I would almost pretend you aren't going to live there and there is a second tenant in there, and calculate everything on the income from both sides.

Pretend you’re a hotel guest, and live in it yourself for a few nights, or have a friend stay and give you feedback like they are a whining hotel guest.

People delude themselves, or try to delude you, into believing all kinds of wacky things when it comes to trying to pretend a mortgage or some other debt isn't valid.

Pro-forma = pretend.

Don't pretend to help them, work with them to cope, but don't drill them with a fate they know long and true.