Build a list, call the list, pretend you have money, buy a contract, sell a contract.

Pretend the next Great Depression is happening 6 months from now.

However, you'd really need to do your due diligence because there are a lot of syndicators pretending to know more than they do about OZ's.

This will go over much better than you pretending to know, as any good mentor could sniff out that out pretty quick.

Because if it’s an investment property the IRS is going to pretend you have been and make you pay recapture at 25% when you sell. 

You pretend to know anything about my or anyone else's "ability" or funds. 

They have more important things to do, like take 1.5hr lunch breaks and surf facebook while pretending to work.  

As John Warren has noted, run your numbers pretending that the unit you're living in is rented out, to give you an idea of what things will be like later.

Let's pretend that $178K is the total owed on the property. 

That's all wholesaling is as it's taught in these programs, it's brokering real estate except instead of being up front & telling the distressed seller that you'll sell their property for X amount & take X amount as your commission / fee you are taught to lie to the seller & pretend you are going to buy the property while you secretly attempt to "assign" your contract.It doesn't work.