Perhaps in the past it would be ok, but today, banks are very leery of letting investors in a deal with no skin in the game.

This is one of my main things i've been dealing with lately.Setting a group up where you tell investors that you need their money and won't have any of your own skin in the game you really have to sell yourself and other abilities you have.

I'm so tired of my fax/printer/scannerI wrote a blog a while back on how irritating my fax/printer/scanner really is.

Make sure your end buyer is more than capable of closing the HML and that they at least have a decent amount of skin in the game to guarantee a closing.

I would just like to comment that I find it extremely irritating when everyone brags about Clinton's wonderful surplus.

You have all the skin in the game yet they are getting a good portion of the benefit.Yes, I'm embarrassed to say that while the stakes weren't nearly as high, I very stupidly was the money in a partnership where I didn't get on the title and I was ultimately left with nothing but a judgment that I can't collect.

Another thing to do is to have a little "skin" in the game.

Me and my wife have learned to grow thick skin in this business.

Jon and Bryan are correct, the bank wants skin in the game.....but let's never say never;It also depends on you financial statement, past business and business relationship with your lender and the property, what's the expected income and value.

Scott, it's hard to read your response and not reply with some irritation towards your perpetuation of the stereotypes so elequently stated in your post.