Maybe as a though exercise over the next few months: pretend that you have to give up real estate and go back to school.

Pati Tanielu I was one of those 1k 3-day seminars, just to test the water, I pretended I had no money, low credit and no credit card.

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

"Pro forma" = pretend.

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

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).

Anything less is more of a pretender.

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 :)

Literally every single day while calling on FSBO ads I stumble across licensed agents pretending to be the owner.

A text is not an email and I can't pretend it is. half the time I can't understand it.