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

The goods are all cream and priced very competitively.

With no relationship, no track record and no experience, they are going to want you to have significant skin in the game to create shared risk.2. 

SF is so crazy with all the politics and I can't wait to hear from you guys how you grow thick skin to maneuver all those.

My guess is that they want the owner to have some skin in the game.

If you have equity in your rentals put them in your personal name and pledge the equity so you will have good skin in the deal.Joe Gore

I just see that putting in the finders fee as leading the wanna be BP audience who is full of no money how do I make money in this business with non of my own  into thinking this is much easier than it really is.. as you know deal flow in the note business is key and you have legions of folks all looking for that cream puff seller carry note :)Anyway once I realized she works for or with Eddie Speed I understand the reason and tone of the post.. had I clicked on her website first I would never even have commented on the thread. 

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

If LiDAR is also stitched to the imagery, then the accuracy is greatly improved and 3D models can be generated with the images used as the "skin" for the model.  

Like you said you can only read and research so much before you have to get some skin in the game.