How much skin in the game? 

Generally depending on the size of a transaction and the nature, a past business relationship needs to have existed and the lender does not make any other loans as a business venture.

It is not in my nature to go out and give bad reviews, but I feel obligated to warn people about a group based in SoCal who sell rehabbed and rented properties in Alabama.

Seabrook happens to be one of those interesting phenomenon in regards to that location because it was essentially one guy came in and started developing it and leveraged really beautiful natural elements of it.

After my wallow, I had become all but desensitized to the panic, it was just over-load for me so my natural instinct is to just turn off that "care-about-it" switch and just accept what was to come will come, and i set out, without a clue what the heck i was gonna do.

From all I read, that's the natural evolution of people's RE investment journeys. 

No thought to the destructive nature of what a low rate would cause. 

There isn't any room to push the income higher other than potential natural appreciation of the rental rate over the course of each lease renewal, which is also generally going to be 12 months.

Also, you are right about wanting to have a deposit from the tenant, so they have some skin in the game to take better care of your property.

Airbnb in particular, as a sharing economy-platform, feels more natural with a person's name attached, rather than a corporate name.