If you consider it you should require they pay 4 months in advance.This will cover them paying the first months rent,time to immediately evict them if they violate a provision in the lease,and cover paint and carpet again.If they violate the lease for any reason all the money paid upfront is NON-REFUNDABLE.Don't just stick a tenant in there to put one in.Make them meet extra security demands or wait on a better tenant to come along.You have to make a tenant like that have a bunch of "skin" in the game.They may or may not have reformed themselves and if they have they should not mind putting extra down.

i dont know of any banks allowing a seller to hold your downpayment...not saying its not possible, but most want skin in the game....good luck and let us know :)

Without a relationship, they'll generally go about 65% of purchase price... with a relationship they'll go 65% of ARV.If they don't know you, expect to be paying for the rehab on your own and putting skin into the purchase.

As an out of state investor wanting someone with skin in the game to care about the property, some kind of partnership comes to mind.Know a young guy, who is the son of a friend, who is buying property in a southern area that is conducive to cash flow.Understanding how one person that carries all the burden could feel like they are getting the short end of the deal, I wonder what kind of arrangement would be fair where one lives in the area, finds property and keeps track of it, while the other investor is out of town too busy to be involved.I have more capital and credit than does my young friend so my contribution would lean more towards the capital side but that makes the partnership lopsided.

If they are stock sizes, it might be more cost effective in the long term to replace completetly; but that depends on how the windows tie into your existing building skin.

If I ran a bank, I'd want skin in the game.

If a lender offers a deal where the borrower has little skin in the game or just "sweat equity" they are not giving you a loan, they are buying your project which likely you will be removed from shortly.

They all (in my experience) require the borrower to have some skin in the game.

The other thing you can ask for is a cosigner from someone with better credit.Usually they move on to another landlord with lower standards but I have people jump through my hoops and with the extra "skin in the game" they have been better than average tenants.

I understand wanting folks to have skin in the game, but I have never understood why folks with the capacity to do otherwise borrow hard money at 65% LTC.