The true value in most mentorships and coaching programs are the communities, the other people who put skin in the game to do it with you.

They have the thick skin and wherewithal to put up with this.

You are going to have a lot of trouble finding financing options with a 2nd lien and to 100% make up a purchase price (i.e. 100% debt financed with no equity or down payment "skin in the game") as part of your payment.I'd recommend looking in the "Creative Financing" subforum if you want to explore potential ways of doing this but frankly it is really difficult to find a genuine "shortcut" that wont end badly for not investing any of your money at all.BRRRR Method remains IMO the best for this but you still have to put some of your own capital to use during the process

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Maybe because they're handed so many things for free they don't have much skin in the game or something I don't know.

Rental arbitrage has more skin in the game bc you’re actually renting/leading the property & furnishing it, keeping up with maintenance, & at any time the owner could decide not to renew.

She was running more than two weeks late the following month, and I'd added the appropriate late fees, making her balance $1,171... and then I got a text saying she'd made a payment... of $17,111.Obviously, that bounced. 

Quote from @Rodney Menendez: @Peter Dukaj yes we are still finding lots for around $19k in Lehigh Acres with no issues for construction  still a soft market and utilities are going to run way more than public sewer and water taps. it all ends up being the same. 40-50k for a lot no matter how you skin the cat. plus all the site work required for those lots is more than double what a traditional infill lot requires in miami or columbus for example 

Buying without any skin in the game is high-risk and a recipe for disaster.

So a sponsor that's great for one investor will probably be terrible for another (and vice versa).I'm a conservative investor, so when I invest in real-estate I prefer sponsors that have at least one full real-estate cycle of experience, little to no money lost, low leverage, and high skin in the game.And there is a multi-family operator that has multiple real estate cycles of experience (decades) and it's track record claims no money lost in that time.