The rents don't justify those prices.

You'd either need to sell your current house, refinance out of the primary residence mortgage, or buy the new property a significant distance from where your residence is (to justify a need to the FHA to allow you their loan).The second is that for a conventional loan, the 5% down payment applies to only a single family home.

The denial of Murphy’s coverage by Commonwealth was fully justified by the policy language, and there was nothing in NY law suggesting that an insurance company “has an obligation to not defend an insured's proper claim where the opposing insured party lacks a proper claim.”

Or, it could be a strong enough promissory note or interest rate that the seller is making enough money to justify the risk.

The income from the coin laundry should offset my lawncare, trash, and water charges, and also justify a rent boost, over time, with existing and future tenants.

Thousands of dollars for crap that you can get for nothing and yet they justify buying it, because if they didn't justify doing so, they would be admitting they had been taken.

I also started a snow plow business in order to justify the purchase of a plow for my properties.

Based on your numbers renovation cost are about $126,000, however you are gaining about $110,000 in equity after renovations so the renovations do not seem justified by the market, as you are spending more then you would gain in value.

For most flips I do there isn't enough profit to justify splitting the profits.

Of course, doing this was a lot easier a while ago when people were re-fi'ing from a 4% rate down to a 3% rate....now, with rates going up, the numbers may not be as appealing (particularly if you're already at a low rate), but if you hurry you may still be able to refi into a rate where the slight increase in your payment more than justifies the significant growth in the rent revenue you can get from the basement (in my experience, a 1k sq ft basement apartment build in SLC would be in the neighborhood of $50k (assuming there was an existing exterior entrance), which translated to a couple hundred a month difference on the payment after the refi, but created an apartment that could rent for 1,300-1,500 --so, a pretty decent roi...