Private lenders or HML might lend if the deal makes sense and you have some skin in the game.  

Seems to reduce burden on them each month and provide me more security because they have skin in the game up until the end.

For lack of a better term,It's really assigning a contract for a fee...The reason why every novice newbie/wannabe wholesaler (besides getting pumped by a "guru") wants to do this and why they ultimately do get a bad wrap is because the majority that get started don't have money  to get into it (or must have), don't know what they are doing  and literally have no skin in the game but tie up a homeowner's house for some time with the homeowner who more than likely has no clue that he or she is dealing with someone who is merely trying to assign the contract...and at the end waste everyone's time when there is no end buyer since they couldn't find one or just buy it themselves......which is probably most of the time since majority lack the proper knowledge or experience to do it right. 

if so, that's a lot of skin in the game. 

Except they talk about some equity, but I think at the end of the day it is some "skin in the game". 

They have ZERO skin in the game.

They want you to have skin in the game, that's the whole point of the down payment.

Looking forward to getting skin in the game and eventually transitioning from my full time job as a deputy sheriff to living on my investment income.

Properties are expensive here and the HML want me to have 20% skin in the game.

You may be able to work out some other ways to do this deal with less money, but banks aren't real keen on investment loans without skin in the game.