Dwight Bradshaw, 10% may sound like a lot to you, but considering that you have no skin in the game, and the money partner is taking all the risk, your money partner may feel differently.

So find a color, logo, font, and stick with it and do it, over and over and over again out to your target market.

A few days later, I got a notice from HOA that I need to have the wires for the satellite painted to match the exterior color of the house.

Some say this is why the return labels are "colored gold".

If you have credit you can see about getting a loan or maybe using credit cards and using the cash infusion as skin in the game in order to better attract a lender.Most will say its too risky but if you have a true deal then I don't see why you should pass it up.But that leads me to the catch: finding a true deal.

You want a very targeted list and you have to be thick skinned and never give up until you get a deal.

If you don't put any of your money ("skin") into the deal, then it is easier for you to walk when the going gets tough leaving all the risk on the lender.

You need a smaller down and seller financing, if you can or use a bank and seller financing with skin in the game.

They said they usually don't allow it for the reasons I mentioned - don't know what the quality would be, damages could be more than the deposit, also many times want a very bright or dark color that can't be covered by a neutral color well.She said sometimes if it is a light or neutral color some of their owners approve it.

The seller probably won't refi it and sell on a contract of any kind, no mention of skin in the game, secondly, it's to be rehabed, if that fails, the seller is stuck, perhaps in worse shape than they are now.