This is exactly how you get it done instead of just pretending.

When in doubt, pretend your customer/client/business partner is your grandmother and this deal involves her last nickel, what would you do then?

I don’t know about laws and taxes for a foreign investor but, besides that I feel totally ready to begin.The money I pretend to use is from one of my three properties that are for sale here in Sao Paulo-Brazil.

Heads up: Some counties will try to pretend like they don't have this list.

I don't pretend to know all of the answers. 

If they lie and pretend like they're actually going to buy the property I will advise my seller not to accept their offer.If a professional wholesaler wants to bring a listing to a list of of cash buyers, I have no problem working with them.

You just gotta separate the contenders from the pretenders.  

he also called my friends bank pretending to be him trying to see if the initial deposit cleared.

The reality however is that in a complex adaptive system like the world's economy for you or I to pretend we can predict the future is to deceive ourselves.

Let's pretend you are buying in Warren though since you said suburb of Detroit.