Consider the wholesaler position: If you have 10-20 people willing to buy a property and you have a set time period in which to sell it, you need the investor to have some skin in the game.If you are not comfortable with those terms you may find better luck going through a real estate agent and finding MLS deals.

You also have skin to put into the game.  

Hard Money lenders may give you a high amount of leverage for the purchase price + construction money on a REHAB project, but full construction projects demand a significant amount of skin in the game from the borrower all around.

Its a 6th month term with interest paid upfront at the start of the loan by our business (to show we have skin in the game) and the principle bubbles at the end of the term.

Lenders want "skin in the game".  

However, if you are doing one, the partners will like to see you have some skin in the game. 

@Sagar Jethva No HML's will lend you without your skin on the game.

Plus you are going to need leverage of some type to acquire 25 properties anyway, and most lenders want you to have some skin in the game in order to get their cash.

I've been doing this a very long time and have pretty thick skin.

Outside investors like to see you've got 'skin in the game' before putting their own money in.