Also stay far far away from MLK Blvd.I have also heard that the city inspectors are unreasonably tough.  

This could lead to some difficulties at first if you are not good at saying no to unreasonable maintenance demands, dealing with late or no rent, etc. but I think for you it is likely going to be hard to keep the story going that you are not the landlord.

You could be a lender and loan funds to a flipper or buy-n-hold investor to rehab a property - i.e. a 1st or 2nd mortgage or you could be the financial partner (more common with a flipper) and bring the rehab money in exchange for a percentage of the profit (50% is not unreasonable) ... plus your capital returned, naturally.In either case, you will need to learn how to do your diligence as a lender or in vetting a partner and become familiar with mortgage/note contracts or JV/partnership agreements.  

They are constantly tuning their price algorithms so it does not seem unreasonable to see values jump around now and then.  

His prices are unreasonably low...so low I was shocked.

We ultimately ended up tearing down the addition because we kept uncovering new problems with it:We couldn't bypass the city and go straight to the county to get the square footage accounted, and the city of Seatac has a reputation for being unreasonable.  

I think they are way out of bounds and very unreasonable ( to put it kindly).I am ready to get a lawyer, but my husband doesn’t want to pay anyone to do anything.

I'm friendly with the current and former President, and he just told me that the legal fees are written in the CC&R's , so perhaps they could be unreasonable, and still collect.

If your quotes seems to be high or unreasonable, just shop around with your local carriers.

This would give you time to make sure you can get all the parcels under contract and also work toward approvals without spending a whole lot of money only to get denied or have the last seller hold out for an unreasonable asking price.