While it may mean lower ownership percentage on your part if you cannot put any skin into the game right now, but it can give you a head start with your plan.

So a sponsor that's great for one investor will probably be terrible for another (and vice versa).I'm a conservative investor, so when I invest in multi-family I prefer sponsors that have at least one full real-estate cycle of experience, little to no money lost, low leverage, and high skin in the game.And there is an apartment operator that has multiple real estate cycles of experience (decades) with no money lost, low 65% less LTV, and high 10%+ skin in the game.

Are they overly dominating the conversation to the point of irritation?

Not only after you purchase the property but what happens if you have an accepted offer on a property (and your deposit has become nonrefundable), and this 100% lender backs out before closing, you might need to find a normal HML that will require a down payment (skin in the game).Regarding the agent; I would not feel pressured to work with anyone.

All this with it 40 degrees outside.I know this is the cost of doing business, but it irritates me non the less.I have the ability to disable heat or AC, i.e. only have heat available on the thermostats in the winter months.

In dressing millstones, the metal tools used, caused chips of metal to embed themselves under the dresser's skin.

I also funded 6 deals yesterday and got paid off on 3 more.. so I closed 10 transactions yesterday.. this loss is a minor irritant.. but I did want to share for others on BP to be careful out their.. lots of newbie wanna be's with good intentions but good intentions still lose an investor capital... but here are great people on BP as well ... our job is to figure out who is who !!!! 

I might look for another way to skin the cat on this one.  

Airbnb really gets under my skin.

The only other things that you'll need to consider if you go this route is that the primary rehab lender would not likely allow them to hold a lien on the property AND they may want that person to be on the borrowing entity since they in-fact are providing all/most of the "skin-in-the-game".