However, getting a policy to cover a few thousand dollars worth of damage to one of my glamping tents is not worth the money, time, or energy for me.

It's literally taught at brokerages that if one is a new agent just say there "investor friendly" because it's quick "easy $".

Will the 100's of thousands to input into the project provide a viable return or a cash out/equity push up refi for it to make sense? 

I literally don't care what their story is.

But could save you thousands in tax.

it was literally my own cash, from my checking account. 

the best wholesalers spend thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a month on marketing. 

Find 3rd party ways to verify the owner and employment as described. it would be very odd to have both an employer and landlord in two different states thousands of miles away that share an area code with the perspective tenant that is not in the market the home market of the PM or the employer.

But when they arise, they often cost several thousand dollars or more, hence the budgeted holdbacks.

I ended up paying 25K and they hauled out 120 thousand pounds of trash.