I haven't done a commercial deal so I won't pretend to give advice I'm not qualified on.

Pretend your 24 yrs old again.

Let's say the PITI $2000 and the rent is $3000 (and lets pretend there are no other expenses) with the net profit split 2 ways, and appearing as such on your tax returns.

Lets pretend I am bringing my house to you for the first time...at this point I am curious,  and even more important I need to know how to do it in the future so I don't get insecure again since I am planning to keep investing and selling. 

Bob Bowling... look, I am not a CPA, nor do I pretend to be.

Contact them.Get to the auction early - park where you can see who is getting out of the auctioneer's car - sometimes they will bring a straw person to RUN THE BIDS - that is to get the audience excited and to bid - often times there are no bidders and the straw person trys to get the audience excited about bidding.If the auctioneer or their associate is on the phone during the auction - sometimes they pretend to have a bidder - you have a right to ask who they are and if they are qualified to bid - probably not!

I felt like starting a new thread whereas there have been several threads.. one particular as of late where people that do not have an real contract pretending that everybody keeps their word and that they would keep their word too.

Pretend to be a prospective tenant and make some calls.

I'm new and don't pretend to know everything but I've always had trouble with the hangups around a cap rate (maybe because I'm in an expensive market I'm prejudiced).

Usually collected as part of the application process.Fraud: let’s not pretend it doesn’t happen.