I've been considering investing in a small neighborhood around the USC campus, but when I pull up the community crime map it's quite colorful which concerns me. 

I came out of it with leather skin and nerves of steel.

Better than most.Do fifty more of these and you'll have skin like a rhino, that kind of BS will just slide right off you.

For example what are you (investor, borrower, personal guarantee, skin in the game etc.).How are you reaching out to people to raise money? 

Lastly, in regards to purchasing with 0% down, what owner is really going to believe that you will keep your end of the deal with no skin in the game?

I have frankly tired of seeing legislation proposed by politicians that have no skin in the game with regards to the consequences of their policy proposals, and God forbid...their impact as law.

Do not be confused by RCW 7.28.050 (Limitation of actions for recovery of real property -Adverse Possession under color of title deducible of record).   

@Kim Meredith Hampton I think the point is that a property manager does not add value daily, acting more like a combo insurance policy and a mortgage servicer...actual mortgage servicers charge less to service a mortgage and also take on some risk...whereas property managers have no skin in the game.

@Ty Doke Looks like to me you don’t have much skin in the game as the saying goes.

Like so many answers in real estate...it depends.You are, of course, not required to use your own money.You can certainly find money as a new investor, most days there is more money chasing deals than there are deals, but you will probably be required to pay more for that money and put more skin in the game (your own money) than someone with more experience.