I have used some of his tips, but I have not used his paid services so I can't personally recommend him, but his advice so far seems practical. 

Hello,
     Does anyone have experience buying a property that has had bankruptcy filed on it? There is a single family house in my market that I got an email about it being in bankruptcy. Is there an opportunity to ...

@Teri Feeney Styers Of course!

Of course, it has more than likely had a positive physical impact.  

So, that is of course a nothing-burger and again nobody asked about that since the question was what would motivate someone to buy these deals.

This is all par for the course.

Here are some­ straightforward tips to kickstart this new venture:Learn re­al estate investing me­thods, market trends, financing choices, prope­rty management, and rele­vant laws.

If I had time to take a 2 week course on it to figure it out, maybe I would have felt differently, but I'm looking for uncomplicated and if their stupid webmaster can't come off his high horse and make it easy then I'm not paying $50 a month plus the lead generation costs...and thats my 2¢

I’m just looking for tips from people that have kinda been in my same situation and might have some advice for us.

Of course, if you have low risk tolerance then this is the wrong business to be in anyways.... :-)