For example, let's pretend I purchase a house for $90K, misc rehab is $10K, so I'm "all-in" rent-ready at $100K and advertised rent is $1K. 

While I dont want to pretend to be one, I want to seem professional and treat tenants as such.

Will a lender see this for what it is, basically a pretend loan with major guardrails in place? 

Pretending a individual is not a tenant does not make it so.

Pretend that they are an experienced investor, lie and say that they are the cash buyer, pretend that they have the ability and intent to close on the deal when really they don't, do not mention that if they can't find a buyer they will use one of the other contract clauses to walk away and leave the seller high & dry.

Welcome Rob Jones I'm no going to pretend I am an expert but I have been doing a lot of research around the Multnomah County area, and a little bit in the clackamas county area.

May help to understand the decision.Also, without being a fraudster, you could always post a feeler ad online pretending you have a property for rent and see what the response is like.

Actually, I just pretending to be an Investor?

The only method I trust to do this is to pretend I'm a tenant and look at all the places they would look for similar properties.

I always suggest people getting into real estate investing that have money, pretend they don't.