Money is coming from far more channels at this point.But I'll play along... let's pretend Dan & Company are driving everything still.

Try hard to pretend you don't know your own website.

Its worse than just being off.. 97% of those type of solicitations are from  scammers pretending to be lenders  you know pump and dump due diligence schemes quote super low rates tell you what you want to hear just need to send me 500.00 up front then another 1000.. 

If this had happened on other forums Admins would pretend nothing happened and sweep it under the rug.

If you want to make a better comparison, you should either factor out the compounding from the stock market calculation (and pretend the returns are used as income) or you should calculate the return on real estate if the cash flow and equity is reinvested.

Who knows when it will come but I have seen a lot of people pretending that values will only increase and rents will only increase and leveraging according to this assumption.

@Joe Matthews Pretend you don't have $50k.

One is because you bought with cash or financed less that the full amount.That's true, but it's really no different than a person that pretends part of the operating expenses don't exist or are off budget.

There are so many media lies where they just make things up and pretends it's real--this could be a complete fabrication.

The initial training is a 12 week program where each new investor will be told to set up an infrastructure of a legal entity, business cards, phone numbers, web pages and miscellanea, to pretend to be a real estate investor, because all this, will not really make anybody a real estate investor.