In fact, that situation occurs quite a bit when son pretends to be dad,  after dad dies, in a clever maneuver to avoid probate.

Actually pretend to be in the rental market and go look at homes for rent in this area.

While all these are important the most important thing is do you have someone with any authority at your pretender lender/servicers office to do educated decision making?

Anything less is more of a pretender.

If you use the above scenario - pretend you're paying the whole mortgage and that any money you earn from your tenant becomes seed money for the next house.

Not always true, there are those prospective tenants who will pretend to be qualified hoping that the landlord will not check them out - because after all, the landlord might think "they won't apply if they don't have a chance", to use your exact words :)

Overall, you want to hose a guy..feel free, but don't pretend its not happening.

After speaking with her, she sounded like an older Russian lady that spoke very good English but was pretending she didn't understand the numbers to work a better deal.A Week before closing the wholesaler calls me and tells me he does not want to deal with the lady anymore because she keeps asking for a discount to take care of the problems in the house (some plumbing and cabinets needed to be replaced, est. $4,500).

Pretend you are worried about sex offenders living on your property while you are going through the eviction process.

"Pro forma" = pretend.