Pretend you have no history with this deal.

Don't pretend to be something you are not.

Pretend that finding off-market deals are the clients, and you making an offer on the property it alike to the product you are selling. 

I won't pretend to fully know what action to take, besides the obvious, hire an real estate CPA!

I went to a meetup recently where everyone was doing their best to pretend that there's absolutely nothing savage about landlording in Yinzburgh, especially the speaker.

Pretend you don't have 50k and figure out how to make it in this business with less than 10k. 

Network but know that there are a lot of snakes out there who will pretend to be big time flippers when they maybe struggled through one deal.

The quality of work would also be lower as I don't pretend to be as skillful as a contractor.

These unscrupulous actors prey on people while pretending to offer them assistance.

For example, I've sleuthed out a few such situations in my market over the last year and found:#1 was owned by a Denver based investing company that wen't on a buying spree in 2018 and imploded#2 was owned by a local investor that is up to his eyeballs in just this type of investment property and (you'll never believe it . . .) is overwhelmed and is Ostriching (you know, where you bury your head in the sand and pretend like nothing is happening . . . yep, they do it too!