My particular interests lie in the buy-and-hold market, as I'm looking to own both short- and medium-term rentals. 

I'd be lying if I said it would be the first time.Instead, I asked her for a hug.

Hosts do anything to ensure a 5-star, to include lying about the guest just to coax a positive review out of them.Hotels don't look at reviews and they do just fine.The people you are talking about are the same ones that will eat most of a steak dinner, then demand a refund because it was under-cooked.

My answer is, right or wrong, I put lying about "other offers" as just fair game negotiations that don't really reflect on a person's honesty.  

Numbers don’t lie!

I think that's where the rub lies for me.

As they say; when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.If I only had $40K to work with, I'd find a proven flipper in a market very close to me and I'd lend him/her the money secured by real estate, using escrow and getting a lender's title policy.

But if you plan to spew more lies here I will continue to call you out.

Quite often they lie to you. 

@Stephen Bruce I have BRRRRd small multi families but the unfortunate part of the equation lies with the appraisal just as the other poster has mentioned.