If your contractor does a bad job and you pulled the permit, no skin off his back if he walks away, other than you taking him to court, if you can find him.

But you can't count on another lender to look out for your interests, and certainly with 0 skin in the game, borrowers behave very differently than if they had tens of thousands at risk.If this is such a great deal, why isn't the original HML in first position lending the whole thing?

Grow some thick skin and don't get involved in tenant drama.

As soon as it's realized how much work it truly entails, and how much of a numbers game it truly is, and how thick your skin needs to be, the "students" bail.

But what I can tell you is if you want to reach out to sellers directly, you need a thick skin.

Talking with people and facing rejection and insults takes a thick skin, and not everyone can develop it.

I know in this business you are supposed to be thick skinned but you are also human sometimes.

It looks like this has been on your mind for some time by looking at your last few posts.It sounds to me like you're looking for a different way to skin a cat.

And why so much discontent about today’s society when only 50 years ago our society was lynching people for having a different color of skin.

You didn't mention it, but will he have any skin (money) in this deal?