@Allie Bloyd welcome to the game!

I personally would rather be an investor/landlord willing to help than not to, as I have found the ethical approach to what my parents always told me growing up to "always treat others as you'd like to be treated" to be very fruitful in this game of life (and real estate) we all play. 

I am also new to the game, but will be specializing in Wholesaling Real Estate.

For us, 2016 thus far has been a year of concentrated effort in the area of personal finance and investing, and I feel like we are learning so much every day as we take real positive steps for the future of our family's finances.Real estate investing has really captured my imagination in the past several months, and I want to become a more involved member of the BP community because I believe that will be a catalyst to invest myself even more and take steps to get skin in the game.

One of my concerns is having so much "skin in the game". 

My take is if an agent works for 3 months on a deal and gets it to the closing table,  they need to compensated well so that they know I'll take care of them when another one crosses their desk.   ....we don't sell real estate so I have no skin in the game.  

game with the rep.

I work closely with some who have been in the game a long time in the area on a professional level and am excited to see where this life brings me.

I always collect one full month's rent first regardless of how many days they occupy the first month and then have them pay the pro-rated amount on the second month - it gets more skin in the game with the tenant. 

Like you guys say the back and forth is part of the game, sometime I get a little more sometimes they get a little more.