People always act differently (more responsibly) when they have skin in the game.

I see the benefit of paying a membership fee which gets "skin in the game " and commits people.

Because of this, there is very little turnover, making actual comps difficult. I

As many others here have pointed out there are lots of places for this to go wrong and unless you are prepared to deal with the difficulty regardless of where it comes from I think you should do something else first.

A pic would def be helpful.It might not really be that difficult, I have a town house built in '77 that I did and it looks phenomenal now.

Given your example you would lend a maximum amount of $16,100. of the purchase price. (23,000) You want the rehabber to have skin in the game.

Operating in a hostile environment and maintaining professionalism despite massive difficulty didn't phase me.

I wouldn't say the govt. wants to kill small business so much as to any difficulty to track you, as if they are interested in you, you can be "tracked" or had very easily.Dept of finance in Mo. had this older af-american lady who was an undercover regulator.

Skin in the game changes the perceived risk.

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