I’ve been looking at several different ways to skin it and I feel like this is a huge difference as well.

Rates are based on how much skin in the game you put (how much capital you contribute).

This attorney is a landlord as well, I like attorneys with skin in the game. 

This mis information is the stuff associated with slick real estate pitchmen and laughed at by professional investors.Unless the seller is desperate to unload AND doesn’t need cash, which is usually why someone’s desperate, so it’s an unlikely scenario, then the seller may become interested in seller financing if the borrower has 20% cash down payment as skin in the game.

Banks often want you to have skin in the game.

Most of the time no because even hard money lenders want you to have some skin in the game, saving will be slow but it is effective.

Then they have no skin in the game if the property underperforms.

@Mark Allen  average person does not have the street creds to do as you delianted above.and its HUGELY risky to invest like this with beginner sponosrs.. they have no skin in the game they usually have the opposite of deep pockets.. and if it goes bad they move on..

If I were her realtor I'd be happy to put it on the market at 1.2M also...its no skin off the realtor's nose if it doesn't sell.

I've dealt with every jurisdiction in South FL and was one of those who had fines up to 100k operating illegally so I've got alot of skin in the short term rental game lol.