@Donnie WhiteAs Chris mentioned, half the agents out there are PTA moms basically just pretending they have an actual job or are building an actual client base so they have some mad money and can lie to themselves that their husband, who brings home the W2 bacon, isn't the sole provider of their family.

Would you be open to finding out who they are, what they're about, what inspired them to come, what they're contributing to this country, as you might with any other visitor - or would you pretend they aren't there and rather they not fix the things that need fixing, because you haven't found someone yet that can do it for the price that you can afford.

I'm a little fuzzy whether he can write off interest on the heloc (let's say that's 10k and pretend that he can for the example.)

We don't need to act like saints and angels and pretend that this kind of stuff doesn't happen all the time. 

Tell your friend to pretend it's a knife (the tip is the blade) and to try to "kill" you.

Noun1.charlatan - a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokesmountebankbeguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat - someone who leads you to believe something that is not truecraniologist, phrenologist - someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skullquack - an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice

Its fairly crappy to pretend you can buy a property when you have no means or understanding of how to.

I even found a buyer, but the pretended that they were not interested and waited until I was out of town and out of contract and went in and bought the house for the same price.

Lovely. 2) I had the owner's roomate call me, extremely high, pretend to be the owner and try to sell me the house THAT NIGHT.

There are pretenders out there that want money upfront.If you buy into the idea of using a property manager (PM) then you need to manage them.If you want maximum rent you will have more turnover which means with each new tenant you run the risk of getting a bad one.