A formal education can be valuable as you will need to educate yourself on the space one way or another prior to just jumping in but nothing can take the place of the experience gained by doing deals.Your options for obtaining experience are to continue your investing activities while educating yourself, hire a mentor to help you do a deal, passively invest in a development project and learn along the way or get a job working for a developer.Development is risky, difficult, time consuming and requires thick skin and a lot of capital but it is very rewarding in a lot of ways not just financially.

I don’t know the law when it comes to domestic violence or the protocol for that but she’s on the lease, therefore she has skin in the game.

The biggest issue I have had with referral companies, especially because they advertise as Turnkey, is that they have no skin in the game. 

I've heard this concept mentioned a couple of times now about a Property Management Company taking a small piece of a deal that they manage for the owner so that they have "skin in the game."

Most require skin in the game.

Ask yourself the question, would you lend someone 100% of a home purchase if they had no experience or skin in the game?

Your lien is paid off, your release fee shows on the HUD as a buyer expense, the buyer has a clean purchase agreement.If this is a problem, I can add more ways to skin your cat, LOL. :)

You need to grow a little thicker skin, or simply stop reading any posts where Will and I are involved (we often have different opinions).

I've found the quickest way to learn something is to have skin in the game.

Or just do two or three wholesales and build up some capital to do a deal with an HML and you'll have skin (your own money) in the deal.