The chances are very good if you have skin in the deal.Joe Gore

Your skin is sticky all day long and when I get that kind of heat, I feel like strangling everyone around me :)

I was kind of thinking mixing the cash out refis and private money covering my "skin in the game" with the funds from the cash out refi. 

It was no skin off my nose to have him around and he gave me a great deal.  

Most will want more skin in the game but that's typically how it works.  

If not you may have a hard time finding money without a bit of a track record or quite a bit of skin in the game.

And if they don't want to buy then get the worst, thickest skinned tenants you can find in there and let them loose...

I don't believe your credit score or cash on hand is critical - although HML will want to see that you have some skin in the game - if you had a high credit score and a bank roll, you wouldn't need the services of a HML.

If I am financing I like to get rents double my mortgage I might take a little less then double but overall that is what I look at.My last rental I bought for $39,900 and I have a 30 year on it, my mortgage including taxes and insurance is $385 and I rented it out for $695 and there are deals like that all over the place I don't even have to look hard to find a deal like this.It needed less then $2000 in work also BTW.I don't know if there is enough skin on the bones but I would do just about any cash flowing deal to get your feet wet that is the hardest part for most investors.

Maybe that got that from me as investor, vacancies make my skin crawl!