Frankly, I'm skeptical about the value proposition of advisors solely focused on investment management; their performance often fails to justify the associated costs.

Fees should be clearly stated, easy to understand, and justifiable.

some “investor-friendly CPAs” charge between $2000 to $3000 annually, and I can’t justify the cost as I don’t have any rental income “yet.”

I don't want to spend a page justifying how I was trying to best resolve a sticky situation -- because I can't.

But I will certainly say we would have been screwed if we had never visited the site and talked to the people operating the location (not the seller but the site management staff, the contractors, vendors, etc) and tried to justify our position to the SBA without this background knowledge because the SBA has a vast amount of data that they can reference and compare the structure of this deal against. 

., and the housing inspector can justify it, it may be approved for a higher rent amount than comps.

We were working around the lay of the ground for drainage and trying to fit as many units as possible to justify the project.

At this time I can't justify the time and cost (nearly 5K it appears? 

But lets not try to justify or rationalize actions which are clearly centered around personal greed!

Everyone gets screwed over by someone, some time in their life, no one walks the face of the earth getting their way all the time, using your past failures to justify shafting the next guy is not ethical dealing.