Many agents like to pretend they are so busy they can't return your phone calls.

Pretend that two strangers were doing the deal and document the same as you would in that situation.John Corey

Pretend you are already there.

With pretend cash flow, you're out of business.

Before driving around my local neighborhoods and practicing valuation techniques on local properties, I want to practice such techniques on my own VA-guarantee financed home that I bought last year; I'm going to pretend that I'm about to put the property up for rent and make a cash flow prediction.For my question, would it be wise for me to get my personal property appraised?

To obtain this key legally, well, as you can imagine the rest....For props that don't have MLS lockbox(combination style), I assume you could just pretend you're a realtor or whatever and obtain the code.Try it, let me know how that works for you.

At this point I'm hoping they get the hint and leave me alone.Funny thing is, when I mentioned this on reddit, all the $12 an hour people started attacking me for being successful, calling me a douche bag who is pretentious, and siding with the person that tried to insult me but just really insulted herself...lol.They don't even understand what pretentious is (pretending to be something you are not).

When I was poking around on some company to help me establish business credit, there were a lot of calls promising everything from heaven (best one was 250k within 6 months without exposing any SSN only EIN), I pretended to be an easy sell, and for sure within 20 mins of the call, in comes the credit card info, simply told them I need more info on what I am paying for, played along and did my delaying tactics, (explanation, contract, money back guarantee, a visit to their office) then from the same referenced individual i think there were at least 3 different company names, Jeff from ABC / Jeff from XYZ / Jeff from LMN Corp.

And who is this annoying guy that pops up in the corner of the screen trying to pretend like a real person who wants to chat with me?

The people who pretend to know everything are the ones who should be afraid.As a contractor, you (likely) have skills that will interest others.