These are single family deals that anyone can do and make buckets more than any REIT investment. 

This likely fits in the market saturation bucket but proliferation of OTAs also.  

We have a savings account where we split up into different buckets (from our w2 and passive income) and one bucket is for real estate and when we have enough to acquire another asset we will consider it.I am not a fan of borrowing 100% of the transaction costs including closing costs as it will be extremely difficult to make money many times on those types of deals.

I really appreciate it If you can pay in cash and not deplete your liquid cash below your emergency savings bucket, I would go cash right now.

Not sure, but the way it was presented it seems like you were putting these two approaches in similar buckets. 

A lot of Californians moved to AZ and TX, but as significant as the numbers are it's only a drop out of a very large bucket.

However the property has a freeway behind it and hence no rear neighbors /more privacy.You’re going to see low or negative returns with minimum down payments in that area unless you’re going BIG as in much larger homes and much heftier budgets for design/amenities.There’s great cashflow on the Clearwater/Largo/Seminole/StPete side - you’re looking at 2 high cashflow buckets that I call Tier 1 and Tier 2. 

He was charismatic and convincing that signing up for Dave’s course (for a measly $40k per year) will be a drop in the bucket compared to what you will actually make.

It really falls directly into the "sounds too good to be true" bucket.

In the Income Snowball, Isn't the use of a LOC similar to David Greene's BRRR method analogy of the 'bucket of water', in that you keep reusing it?