Have all the adults sign the lease so they all have skin in the game.Or just flat out NO.

@Todd Goedeke My comments aren't "biased", I have no skin in the game, and unlike some, have no ego on the line.

$80,000 does provide you some comfort that the buyer has skin in the game and will want to see the loan paid off(so long as the value of the property is more than the value of the debt.I would ask for an interest rate higher than mortgage rates are giving.If an investment loan with a bank is 7.5%, I would ask for about 8% to 8.5%

You keep the cash working for you, not buried in one spot.There’s more than one way to skin this cat.

Note that I do not put a lot of time into due diligence until the "contract to hold" meeting, when they put some skin in the game.At the "contract to hold" meeting, I collect an amount equal to one month's rent.

Skin in the game – How much capital are you bringing?

I'm not at all familiar with any of those markets so I have no skin in the game here but I'm curious what strategies or applied logic you used to help narrow it down to those areas.

Don’t be surprised if they value it accordingly.I’ve no doubt you will receive DMs from many brokers who will have no skin in the game.

I was listening to the BPMoney podcast my favorite one, and @Scott Trench got under my skin by saying that Americans are wealthier today then in the past. 

In other words...people that don't have enough skin in the game to even cover the deposit.