I've had friends offer to call on my behalf, pretending to be prospective tenants, but I hate being dishonest about it.If I called you, would you say "It's none of your business" and hang up, or would you tell me?

I am a real estate agent and therefore my income doesn't start to count until after 3 years do to the fluctuating nature of real estate commissions.I am not a CPA nor to I pretend to be one, but from my experience you will not see large gains when starting out.

Or you can just sweep all of the complexities under the carpet and pretend that nothing happened.

But it would show up as ordinary income for you.No, you can't just make up some number and pretend you spent money.

I don't want to pretend to be an expert as I only have a rudimentary understanding of what we are discussing, but from my understanding the proper process is to have the easement or right of way "attached" to the deed so it travels with the deed when sold to new owners.

Try hard to pretend you don't know your own website.

It's interesting to track their actions and see how we can gain from them, but other than that, you can just drive yourself nuts trying to figure them out.I also don't think it's wise to assume that they are the gurus of finance that they pretend to be.

I won't pretend to know a lot more than the apartment realm. 

You may need to educate them on the value that you bring, but you'll find that the people who truly understand the difference between the cost of something and making a little less from the deal will use you exclusively and you'll both make more money.The bottom line answer is that you may want to go to the REIA's and pretend to be a borrower so you can see what others are lending money at in your markets.Good luck!

@Talley Haines It's a game of pretend.