They may ***-u-me that the relationship you seek is implied in that way and they can "cut straight to  the info" rather than take time with the pleasantries needed to build that relationship.Take those "irritating" inquiries and reframe them: pretend the inquiry used the expected approach and give that type of response.

You can always do it all yourself and pretend you are saving money.

I do not wish to waste anybodys time as a pretend mentee,(FT job) I am looking to get my feet wet, however I am beautifully clueless.It appears I need a contractor to help appraise my first deal, I am ready to by the house which is a literal ******** at listed price, but do not know if I am overestimating or underestimating rehab costs.From what I gathered, most experienced REI are not willing to share their contractor leads for good reason. 

They pretended that Fortune Builders only accepted the most motivated and qualified persons for the Mastery program but I am sure that anyone that had the $30,000+ for the program would magically meet their "qualifications."

Now that doesn't mean you do business with people who are bad at their profession, but it's always better to have friends than enemies, and so at least pretend you respect them because at some point you will have to do a deal with someone you don't like.

So pretend that they did do the inspections and they were good or bad.

Meaning, for the more simple minded people, you could sit with your thumb up your butt for 121 months before you run out of the $8,000.If you can make more than 0.8% or $65.90 a month on your $8,000 over the course of 30 years, then I would say you would have made the right decision to skimp out on the bigger down payment.NOW.. my honest opinion, although i'm not a mogul like some of these people are, or pretend to be on this website..I would say keep the $8,000 and find a way to get extremely creative with it in order to make more than .8% a month to make it a good investment.

Pretend!

I don't want to pretend to be an expert.

I am not an attorney or pretend to know all areas of this kind of law.