However, more savvy real estate investors will want you to have skin in the game and the ability to pay the loan back.

are there better ways to show skin in the game for hard money investors?

Is it standard for HMLs to ask for a one-time deposit of $3500 that includes: 1) evaluators going out to property to determine whether it's a good deal, 2) enrollment fee and 3) "skin in the game"?

If you let something like this get under your skin, it will undermine other things of higher priority.

Being a BP Podcast junkie, I've naturally progressed to the forums.

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Naturally that didn't work for me.

I’m also conservative by nature as it’s how I was raised.

Like-kind property is property of the same nature, character or class.

Flipping by nature  most likely will be considered a business holding in renting give you the luxury of not paying Social Security and Medicare.