For instance, with STRs, why won't an investor spend an hour on AirBNB for their area to identify listings that:1) rank the highest2) occupancy 95%+3) ADR $750+4) hosts have 2+ properties5) listings are branded with 20k+ Instagram followersetcThen, reach out to those top operators; as many don't have the time or gave up on cold outreach, yet they've done the hardest 90%, have skin in the game, and outcompeted thousands of listings nearby.

If they don’t have any skin in the game and in fact they make more money keeping late fees and making another lease-up fee plus whatever they make processing the eviction that’s what they’ll keep doing and that’s not going to end well for you.

As a conservative investor, I am personally not comfortable in investing in any of those platforms as I prefer sponsors with a lot more experience, a lot more skin in the game, better fees, a model that can be recession stress tested, etc..

Not that I'm aware of....you need skin in the game.

STRs are not for the faint of heart or the thin-skinned.

They want you to have some skin in the game.

I have had this situation come up several times this year, in multiple states, Lenders want to have the borrower have skin in the game at this point in time. 

As an investor myself, fully capable on closing a deal (yes, I can get hard money, put up my capital, or my 20% as a skin in the game, buy, fix rehab the prop and sell on market, or just hold and sell), I have ZERO fiduciary duty to seller.

They disagree because they are for you.These are some observations of thin-skinned behavior:1.

I've got to skin this cat!