Hi everyone, excited to get started! Specifically with BRRRRs and building up a solid portfolio of hidden gems. If anyone has any tips or tricks to a first-timer, feel free to leave a reply (especially curious about s...

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.

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.

I have a package I put together with my bona fides and then verifications. any one can write a glowing bio

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.

Lots of ways to skin it, but it can take several touches before a lead responds. 

Far fewer disruption to my life, and possibly a little cheaper via economies of scale and lower costs due to not having to move furniture out of the way with every step... so many ways to skin a cat, and they a will work.. just need to decide what works best for me an my situation I guess. 

And they have zero skin in the game.