No matter what, if this is your first investment property deal, you will have to have some "skin in the game" with anywhere from a 10% to 25% down payment, plus closing costs and required reserves.

Usually, they want you to have skin in the game. 

You're taking some of the risk or have skin in the game by handling 50% of the expenses.4.

I even created my first LLC to start the fix and flip business, funding it with enough skin in the game, elsewhere hoping to use OPM rather than my own capital to fund these projects as it has been difficult finding a lender who is comfortable with loaning to me solely without an LLC.My goal has always been to match my W2 income and eventually double it and more so I can work as a hobby rather than relying on it to live.

You would need to bring 10-15% cash down for your skin-in-the game.  

No matter what you write in your Offer, it's no skin off the Realtor's nose.

", maybe some things are best left silently unwritten.But I suppose as you grow older and more comfortable in your own skin, you change.

Of course, there are still ways to get scammed doing this, but sharing incentives and ownership such that there is skin in the game GREATLY reduces these risks.

Most want some skin in the game.

They might ask for some type of down payment just know that you have some skin in the game.