Unless you live in a cave, wear animal skin for clothes and only eat wild berries, don't give me the "big, bad corporation is evil" excuse.

This is probably not possible.Most HMLs want you to have some skin in the game.

They typically only have marketing costs for skin in the game and are just looking for a quick check.

Have your bank check into that or ask an FHA lender if it's available in your area.What skin do you have in it, was this near 100% on a 500+K property?

Being a landlord requires a thick skin.

Along with that could come the ability to get the loan and raise the money for the down and closing.There are other ways to skin the cat.

Holdman, most HML will require some skin in the game.

That said, crowdfunding may be a good way to raise sponsor capital, or the amount of equity outside investors require you to have in the deal to have "skin in the game".In summary, I believe crowdfunding is a game changer that will enable thousands of entrepreneurs to seed their ideas.

The stories they tell me about the competition would make your skin crawl.

But if somebody comes to visit or for too long my house it begins to irritate me.