They have more skin in the game then you do.Make sure you get clear title.

When people do not have any skin in the game, they are usually abivalent to caring for someone else's asset (or honoring a written contract, for that matter). 

@Nathan G.Books read in 2019:1) Getting Things Done2) Antifragile3) The Big Short4) The War on Normal People5) Good to Great6) The Gift of Fear7) 19848) Long Distance Real Estate Investor9) The Story of Kodak10) The E Myth: Revisited11) Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets12) The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs13) What Every Real Estate Investor Need to Know About Cash Flow14) The Book on Managing Rental Properties15) Set for Life16) The Millionaire Next Door17) Zero Risk Real Estate: Creating Wealth Through Tax Liens and Tax Deeds18) Real Estate Loopholes19) Market Wizards20) Rich Dad Poor Dad21) Sleepy Hollow22) The Personal MBA23) On Tyranny2020 Reading List:-Wealth of Nations-The Organization of Industrial Scientific Research-Toms River-In Love and War-Skin in the Game-Extreme Ownership-Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book-Finance for Nonfinancial Managers-The Muller Report-All Quiet on the Western Front-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance And whatever else catches my eye...

They have more skin in the game then you do.Make sure you get clear title.

I believe he was just very green and very inept his model of 50k rentals would never work then and will not work in the future.. at least for OOS investors who have to hirer everything out. those props are only appropriate for local hands on landlords that have the thick skin to deal with those areas. 

The OLMs don't have any skin in the game and you're talking to people in another country that don't even understand our laws (not to mention they can be slightly different from one state to another).  

When I am filthy (rich) you will see me on the news hunting Ewoks with my leopard skin towel around my butt speeding on my speeder bike smacking ewoks on the back of their heads as I zoom by!

@Josh Wilson as a pilot in the military you should have a thicker skin.

I get how private money works.... and I get the deal.But even hard money lenders typically want some skin in the game.

You just have to have thick skin.