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. 

If you are happy with the other terms, offer $1K in closing (pretend they offered you $1K below list price) and leave it at that.

Pretend you don't have that or maybe only use 5k to get some marketing going, get your real estate license and learn to wholesale. 

Many sellers try to pretend their expense ratio is like 10% but that's nonsense.