In terms of buy and hold you can definitely get better yields than NZ but you have to be pretty thick skinned as there are all sorts of problems in the US we don't get in NZ.

At least then, the agent won't be the only one with skin in the game.

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We don't know the value of your piece of the company or your house so we wouldnt know if the guarantee they are asking for is a big ask relative to the value of your house or just a token value to show you have skin in the game and cant just walk away.

We would have skin in the game and would be the ones actively managing the project.

J Scott How much skin do you like to see the requester have in the deal?

Books are written on this subject and, there is more than one way to skin a cat!

Bruce,Wholesaling is one of the easiest forms of RE investing and without having to put any "skin" into the game.

I'm not unrealistic and I'm happy for others to enjoy some successes along the way, but if the contractor netted the same as I do, with no skin in the game or risk I would not be extatic.

A borrower who asks for a no skin in the game loan raises some serious red flags to most lenders, be it a bank or a private lender.