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3 July 2013 | 2 replies
Your client needs some serious skin in the game if your credit is on the line.
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2 August 2013 | 19 replies
That being said they will want you to have some skin in the game.
8 July 2013 | 10 replies
Hard money "asset based" lenders still require that you have skin in the game.
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8 July 2013 | 18 replies
You must have skin thick enough to deal with that and not sweat the small stuff.
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28 July 2013 | 16 replies
If 40% is what it takes to get the capital, that's fine, but in my opinion that's pretty rich to the money source when you have 50% skin in the game.
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29 August 2013 | 21 replies
It also allows him to get his refinance ready to take you out as part of the refinance so he isn't coming out of pocket for that.For him you are keeping some skin in the game when you initially rent it so that he knows you are placing a quality tenant(even though you would anyway that's what I would tell him).
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24 July 2013 | 9 replies
However there are more than one way to skin this cat.
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30 July 2013 | 29 replies
I think I would be irritated if a landlord called ahead every month reminding me of rent.
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31 May 2012 | 47 replies
As long as things are structured correctly and there is alignment with skin from the other partners you trust then I think this is close to the best of both worlds.
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18 August 2018 | 105 replies
There is always other ways to skin a cat.....