This introspective journey may involve questioning one's desires, biases, fears, and illusions in order to gain a clearer and more authentic understanding of oneself.The saying also implies that self-knowledge is a lifelong pursuit.

In many cases, I would rather dispell any illusions they have about their homes value before asking them what it's worth.

I chose the illusion of the "shortcut" (that's what i believed, they didn't tell me it was a shortcut).IF I ONLY KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOWya, the best way to get to the above subtitle is by doing your dd before investing in anything.i certainly learned the more expensive way (in time and money). was it worth it?

I think some people see wholesaling as a natural start to their REI journey, perhaps, their first seminar on real estate was a charismatic speaker giving a seminar, sorry meant sales pitch, on how he/she has made thousands by simply assigning contracts and making a quick 20k 🤑🤑🤑Naturally, as humans, we almost instantly think "I can do that", so our knowledge illusion goes into overdrive, tricking our brain into action so, I guess, we forget to even spend the time to research other aspects of real estate and/or even stop to think, wait, "am I willing to do this real estate thing for the rest of life?"

When you’ve got high-quality flooring and wall tiling in light colors that are cleaned to shining, this creates an optical illusion that makes the bathroom seem immense—much more than it actually is.

The illusion is they are affordable. 

Auctions have a way of giving people the illusion that they are getting a great deal when they may not be.

Sometimes you need to create the illusion for the buyers because not everyone has the same ability to see themselves living in the space (also if you can afford, a little staging would definitely help out some of these spaces).Also, although the landscaping looks cute, the rest looks blah...

However, the more I learn,  I realize just how lucrative real estate investment can be, but I'm under no illusions that it is easy or without risk.

@Brian Tisler term leases are an illusion of security.