Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.” ?

So rule #1 - don't pretend to be  something you are not.

Let's pretend you guys were out of the country for the next 18 months.

Hiring a qualified GC could save you thousands in mistakes by subcontractors who just pretend to know what they are doing.

Pretend that the commission was 3% (not 6%) to begin with, and there's no agent on your side making 3%.

Sometimes he pretend they are there for the whole day or whole week while they are not.

I basically went through each item and compared to quotes on redbeacon.com and also got my girlfriend to call up the renovator and pretend to put a quote in for a similar apartment and it came in roughly inline with what he quoted.Thanks.

So lets just pretend that I found a property for 1.0 million (for ease of the example) and had a combination of 30% private money and 70% hard money already lined up.

I worry, though, since they seem to like to pretend that they own the place, and they often have a desire to "improve" things that don't need improving.

Most average contractors know how to read a scope and simply follow the details and what owner wants, the one who pretends to be a mind reader usually ends up in trouble or will give an investor a headache.