But in my due diligence I find too many imperfections such as:Zoning issuesNo building permits pulled with city/countyToo much rehab needed for the priceConventional lenders won't lend on it (non-warrantable condo, two houses on one parcel, etc...)The improvements I want to make aren't allowed by the cityI struggle to find anything that comes close to the 1% rule here in Utah, Wasatch, and Salt Lake counties.

So it should all be taken with a grain of salt.  

People (even in Utah) seem to get all excited about markets a thousand miles away that they've never been to, but no one thinks of Ogden unless they have a personal connection there.A friend of mine who has gotten priced out of the Salt Lake market looked at promising markets all over the country and he's circled back to Ogden as one that has all the right ingredients.Hope those properties continue to do well for you.

Take internet advice with a grain of salt, especially controversial advice or action.  

So take that with a grain of salt.

Standard 25 x 125 lots and my snow removal for the year with salt is $1200 and my lawn care for the summer is $800 - this is the first year we hired lawn care but we used to go mow ourselves.  

Every episode, they make stupid non-inspection- or comp-related blunders that any rehabber worth his/her salt would have scoped out beforehand.  

While most of these need to be taken with a grain of salt, and obtaining a BPO will surely give you a better idea of the real value, does anyone know why they dropped posting a guestimate of the price?

It would be nice for you to use your friend exclusively, if he is worth his salt and you are very clear about your criteria then there should be little that happens in his market that he does not know about.

She also permanently stained the linoleum in one room because she spilled salt (rock salt) when she moved out.