Pretend you are making a packet for a judge.

I still enjoy this forum but let's not pretend it hasn't morphed into a totally different animal the last few years. 

I usually suggest people pretend they have little to no money and make it in this business on a self imposed shoe string budget. 

She refused to transfer me to anyone else pretending to be the competitive source of reliable information.Was it me who didn't ask the question correctly or the rep who had no clue on what to ask their "help line" for?

@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.

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