How come you don't see the excitement you could have, of asking yourself all those questions at your desktop, if only you had some skin in the game?

Cash to invest (enough for deposits, skin in the game lenders want you to have, closing costs, carrying costs, and to kick off rehab work).2.) 

Alternatively i could go for being a real estate broker and try to get experience in actual real estate without putting too much of my own skin in the game.

This is why you need to do a ton of due diligence on them and make sure they have skin and the game and something to lose.

- To actually make money investing in S8 rentals, you'll need to develop a thick skin, so you can make business decisions that often conflict with one's humanity tendencies.DM us if you'd like to discuss more.

They have no skin in the game, they'll just move on to the next owner.

Forming little groups in the background to down vote certain individuals comments based on skin color, or religion, or perceived political leanings seems like something we could all do without on this forum.

I know the podcasts and books speak about being in a deal with zero skin in the game, but that is an outlier situation not the norm. 

And I generally require a sponsor that has full real estate cycle experience with little to no money lost, low leverage, high skin in the game and reasonable fees and promotes.However, other investors will look at these deals as bad/too boring for them because they are more aggressive and not concerned about the risks of default, refinance, interest rates changing etc.

There are companies out there that have 0 skin in the game and are just referral sources and there are others who are vertically integrated so they own/manage the entire process from start to finish.