You were shilling for it whether or not you want to hear it.In case you weren't familiar with shills, here is a definition:A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services who pretends no association to the seller and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer.

It should always be "working for you" in one form or another.When analyzing a deal, even a "deal you already own", in order to compare apples-to-apples, you should pretend you have a 30-year 90% mortgage, or pretend to take out a 90% home equity loan on your property, pretend to invest that cash in something relatively safe (or risky as is your risk tolerance allows), add the income from that investment to the rental income, and THEN see if it still positive cashflows.

Take a few days to compose the letter, pretend it's a term paper for the most important college class you'll ever take.

Not just pretending to.

Bulk REO reps are an area of the biggest scammers and pretenders.

I don't have experience flipping so won't pretend I do by giving you advice on it.

In the beginning I was stealth and pretended to be looking for a home to rent.

(I'm not a lawyer nor do I pretend to be legal council)That section you posted is from the TREC 535.16.

I am an engineer, and I have taken a few crazy math courses, but I am not going to pretend I can calculate out all the risks associated with having an mortgage and put a dollar amount on it.

Regarding finding a property, there's nothing wrong with pretending that you are going to buy now even though you are going to buy in a year.