That's fun - two first time posters singing the praises of this program One of which, Nick, works for the company based on his LinkedIn profile. 

In The Millionaire Real Estate Investor, it profiles a couple who used this strategy.

Meanwhile he has gone so far as to update his profile page background to promote  a 3 day wealth summit.

It depends a lot on your risk profile and regular income.

One of the biggest risks I observe with flips and first time investors are instances where the project goes over budget or gets stuck in mud, can't sell and even worse the borrower doesn't have the credit profile to refinance out to a lower interest lending source if borrower is required to hold the property as a rental. 

You forgot to put your location in your profile.

To some degree it's always speculation, and to other degrees the risk profile situates itself for it.It's just what are your intentions & pursuits.

A simple baseline plan might’ve steered him toward properties with more reliable maintenace histories or a stronger neighborhood profile, saving him a lot of sweat.

I believe the point of contention with many who were on the OP's case in the older thread was his unwillingness to disclose his role in the promoted projects in his BiggerPockets profile.

Not sure if I'm allowed to post external links here, but it's in my BiggerPockets profile page.