I have to admit, I was completely new to the term "extend and pretend" when I first heard it a couple of weeks back.  The investment real estate market, especially here in Memphis, TN. has been helped along by this strategy but also hampered by it. I was reading an article in my local newspaper and was shocked at what I read.  I was so dumbfounded after reading the article that I had to do some research on it before commenting here.