Storm sewer, storm pond, sewer lines, water access, fire hydrants, public bathrooms, surface coverage, sidewalk or bike paths, setbacks, power lines and right of ways known and unknown, road access, etc. 5.

I have never taken his course, so can't speak to that, but on the surface of a couple Google searches, of the two he seems to actually be involved in real estate a lot more.  

Alternatively i could go for being a real estate broker and try to get experience in actual real estate without putting too much of my own skin in the game.

I would clean it off wait acouple days and respray that surface.

However, the main message I want to make here is that please do your proper due diligence, don't believe anything you read and you're told and scratch below the surface.

This is why you need to do a ton of due diligence on them and make sure they have skin and the game and something to lose.

I'm actually really considering section 8 housing due to returns on the surface.  

Furthermore when you raise money from investors who don't have local knowledge of the market where the investments are made it only magnifies the problems that persist and allows some of these operators to extend the time period before the true troubles surface which only makes it worse for those who have invested.  

Cash to invest (enough for deposits, skin in the game lenders want you to have, closing costs, carrying costs, and to kick off rehab work).2.) 

They told me they never trained for that, just reacted to save their own skin.