I am very careful not illusion anything and writing things on an as that could get me in trouble.

You did what you wanted so you'll argue with everyone to protect the illusion that you are "right". 

Cash or the illusion of it is KING when it comes to getting the property for a good price. when i say illusion is because normally when we buy CASH we are usually still financing it just with either a HML or a PML. and the deals are out there for sure if you have the money and look in the right places. we closed on 2 last week one on Wednesday and one on Friday. rehab work started this week already. 

Without those two success will probably be an illusion.

You can then "Like" or follow the different people.Here is where you get the results: find a few hashtags that you want to focus on, Ill use the example #dreamhomes (I have no idea if this is popular at all, just using as an example).

Some folks votes count for more in real life....but they don’t count for more here. keep in mind many service providers on this site that sell ancillary real estate products are welcome wagon posters.. and this juices there post counts a lot.. you know the posts  IE welcome to the site go here go there.. while those are nice and valuable to the new member it can give an illusion of more involvement on the site than what they really do..

There is no illusion here.

Generally during this time there would also have been some appreciation.The more general situation of how someone gets to be upside down is because they suffered from the illusion that a stupid mortgage was a bad idea, or the illusion that prices would go up forever.

I am under no illusion that the auction process in CA is the same as CO; so I have plenty of home work to do. 

They saw the dollar signs and the illusion of freedom that running your own business poses.