Your gender, skin color, religion, how good looking you are or not, has NOTHING to do with what kind of investor you can or cannot be.

Save your blood pressure and thick skin!

The problem with including water in the rent is then they have no skin in the game.

Think of an onion, K C, with you in the center and all those sleazy tenants and attorneys outside the skin.

Let it dry, hit it with some sand paper and then I did an Orange Peel texture to hid any other defects.

Thats awesome, did the private money require you to have any skin in the game?

It would be much better spent on marketing or skin in the game on a loan!

I'm sure that will help you have the thick skin you need to be successful.

Occasionally I get tossed a higher end project that is developer led, and they'll let me really get photo real with the textures and lighting, and it's quite fun to do.I used the software to get an idea of what our current flip is going to look like, but at the end of the day; unless you have time/need to use it, it's probably not worth it.

Again, other might feel differently here.b) Skin in the game: as a conservative investor, I understand that the dirty secret of industries that the waterfall compensation is in the line with me and incentivizes sponsors to take more risk.