I have read many glowing recommendations for Solera Bank and their Solo401K program. 

Right now our market supports this strategy and gives us a more skin in the real estate game versus chasing down MFH.

You need to make sure this is a ground up build with pictures and not an older building re-skinned or given a face lift.

Especially with it being refundable, coming from a lender's perspective, there are a lot of requests for folks on that end that don't end up panning out so getting a little 'skin in the game' early might be a way that they use to mitigate that a little bit.That being said, most groups do not do that and I know that I usually send them out pretty willingly.

This operator had skin in the game of his own 45K when I gave him my money and he didn't intend to pull it out or so he said.

I'm not a realtor so I have no skin in the game, happy to chat and bounce ideas off each other! 

@Evan Holly I’m a broker lender and recently ran through a scenario with a client who wanted a VA loan first and seller financed second and the underwriters were fine with the seller financed second as long as the borrower had the skin in the game normally required of the loan program (in that case nothing).

- Does the operator have skin in the deals?

I essentially put skin in the game and am informed the whole way up until the property resells.That said, I think I'll be able to learn how the project is structured from start to finish and learn how I can do this all better in my journey.

Shaun for a landlord you seem to have very thin skin, don't be so sensitive.