My girlfriend lives in Green Bay and because her parents wouldn't approve of us moving in together (until married), we are pretending to be rebels by having her be a tenant in a duplex/triplex that I purchase. 

Sounds like the seller is a moron, hiring idiotic offspring to represent them and than pretending to be FSBO.

If you want to pretend to be an investor and be like 90% of the other beginners on here just keep doing what you're doing. 

I feel really bad that someone who is pretending to be me stole your money and is making me look bad!

My husband would definitely want to use it once per month (even in winter) since he is a reservist in the coast guard there.Do we boost our retirement fund by taking a more conservative approach at home, or do we get a property in PCB that allows us to pretend we're already retired for 2-4 days a month?

Go to AirBnB and pretend you want to book for this summer to see who your competition would be.

But in my experience they would give you sometimes numbers of their friends and colleagues to pretend to give me faulce information.

I won't pretend they don't like to spend, but they all know it's important to Save, and more importantly to Invest.I think it important to present a consistent overall approach but that drilling daily/weekly about the importance of specifics might be overkill. 

They are gaining the trust of the homeowner by pretending to be an expert in their field and falsifying the info into their advantage so they can make money.  

Let's pretend $500 for now.