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16 May 2016 | 7 replies
Along the same lines of hard money and needing skin in the game?
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2 May 2016 | 9 replies
Not enough skin in the game for a lender to your seller's problem and for you to exploit our.
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1 June 2016 | 3 replies
Then you might get a little less based off the concept that the investment is less risky when this person puts 'skin in the game'.
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22 May 2016 | 9 replies
I reminded her of the steps we went through...The seller needs to be in a position to carry..in other words, cant have a big mortgage to pay offThe Buyer needs to have a suitable down payment ( skin in the game)The interest rate needs to be reasonable (ours is 7)Term needs to be relatively short...our favorite term is 5 years.
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26 January 2017 | 7 replies
Stay away from using personal funds/credit (minus your upfront down payment which is your "skin in the game" - same as if you wired some cash over to a broker to play stocks).
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17 January 2017 | 14 replies
If you can't get an assignment option, you can skin this cat many other ways before your last resort of double closings.
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24 January 2017 | 18 replies
They have no skin in the game.
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28 February 2017 | 11 replies
Yes, which is not a problem to show them the skin in the game.
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6 March 2017 | 8 replies
- Yes, be careful of any agent, because they have no skin in the game if you can't make it work.
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17 December 2018 | 20 replies
That amount would get you in the class C&D areas, you need thick skin to make it through that, not recommended for beginners.