I've definitely grown thick skin when making offers.

The contrast of the shaky residential housing market consisting of vacation homes, condos and speculative construction projects; with the consistently solid fundamentals and glowing economic outlook for the commercial real estate markets, make right now the perfect time for the investor to re-balance his real estate portfolio.

its a credit report appraisal and proof of experience to give you the pricing and of course skin in the game.. if this borrower was trying for a 100% loan with NO cash into the deal with poor credit and a BK  IF that is true then does not matter who you are as the borrower you have to know your not getting  a loan unless its from personal acquaintances that like you and trust you  regardless of your financial or credit situation.lastly that deal sounded too good to be true I can see a HML questioning that one.. 

I realize there are many ways to skin a cat and I'm going to make mistakes on my first deal.

Just curious for any home buyers or investors with heavy skin in the game.

They have more skin in the game then you do.Make sure you get clear title.

You would also have skin in the game to give yourself the motivation to learn everything you can.

Account ClosedIt may not help with the immediate 15% Down issue, but have you thought about using the 15% down option to purchase the place then put on a HELOC using the equity on that same property and then cut yourself( Or your LLC) a check for the 15% you just had to put down...Just a different way to skin the same cat...  

I understand about skin in the game, but ive seen 100% hml's personally.

I'm trying to come up with money so I can put some "skin in the game" for a first real estate investment.