The property owner always loses while the arbiter has no skin in the game at all, just skimming profits off of the owner and can walk away any time they want without reprocussions. 

The buyer must have 20% to 30% "skin in the game." 

I want to know how much skin they have in the game, the loan, and their track record.

Well, if I'm buying to flip and it's going to cost me 3-5 months of time, effort, holding costs, risk, etc, and I'm only going to make $30k off the final sale then it serves to reason that the wholesaler would make less because they have less skin in the game.

Landlord - lots of ways to skin this cat but finding, buying, leasing, managing will be nearly impossible for you overseas unless you have someone take all of this on for you.  

You have skin in the game in the form of your entire net worth.

We agreed upon a 2-4 unit property since I have learned they are typically easier to finance, since they aren't considered commercial.We both agree that we would like to split the liability equally so that we both have the same amount of skin in the game.

The next one is in April and I would recommend going, it was amazing bc people were getting properties for 5K, Am very much stressing you def do your due diligence bc alot of them are in areas some investors might not have the thick skin for.  

Even as a veteran, we always learn new ways to skin a cat.Big Henry

I would as much as possible put yourself in a situation where the tenants have skin in the game so they will take better care of the place.