. : ) There are a lot of people in this business that call themselves investors but really are players and pretenders.

Call the for rent signs and pretend to be a tenant (don't feel bad, some of your calls are from other landlords.)

As a buyer, when you see the word "proforma" you should read "pretend".

Lets for simplicity pretend you are using your own cash so there are no private money fees. 

Pretend that you are buying it all cash.

Shop your market and try to pretend you are not a landlord, put yourself in the shoes of the shopper (very hard to do) but try.

In other words, pretend that you are about to gut your entire house and remodel it from top to bottom.

Anyone in California of course should pretend that both PDFs have my contact info on it, as well as language implying it's some super duper special thing that only I offer and no one else can match, and not a vanilla Fannie Mae thing that anyone can do.

Hey boss this buyer is a major player he wants me making 20 offers a day etc etc.. the rookies fall for this.. experienced agents tell them to take a hike.I would then ask my agent to invite this so called big shot 20 offer dude in to the office I want to vetter them for you.. usually by the time I was done with them.. the pretenders just kind of slinked out .. the players I took to lunch and golf   LOL...

Not sure what that means, but lets pretend full occupancy at $252 per day.