This approach seems to be leading many investors to financial setbacks and unnecessary stress, and an overall pretty traumatic experience. 

If you offer any sort of leeway or agree to make unnecessary upgrades they will walk all over you.

I'm really interested in having a lease that is tailored to Philadelphia, but maybe that is unnecessary.

But for a first time homebuyer looking at a place to live (even if you're househacking/going to turn it into a rental in a year), that data may be overwhelming and/or unnecessary. 

I'll be preaching the same advice forever; secure employment, save religiously, build your credit, limit unnecessary debt, get pre-approved, and house hack your first deal.

Ask yourself - are you willing to take unnecessary risk or would rather find a way to make it work some other way.

Scanning snd sending and waiting for the recipient to download sign scan and return seems like an unnecessary process these days.

A clear path to the problem area so handyman doesn’t have to touch anything unnecessary.

A reserve is unnecessary, but I still keep around $15,000 - $20,000 in my account.The point is, you should sit down and assess your personal finances to determine what the worst-case scenario may look like, how much you would need to cover it without impacting your life, and whether you will need to build a reserve.

His critique of you...unnecessary.