They take some technique or strategy that’s only workable or beneficial in a very tiny percentage of situations and generalize it as a major breakthrough.  

Looking back, that was just an amazing marketing technique but it piqued my interest.

If your doing multi-family rentals the technique is to wait the seasoning period, refinance with a cash out option and go purchase another property.

His techniques and his paperwork are spot on, and we never had any problems when it was time to take our properties out of trust and sell them.   

I know that the BRRRR technique works well with that type of loan, but hey, BiggerPockets is a great resource

Finding deals before they hit the MLS can be done by anyone, in fact if you were an agent, the effort and techniques to find off-market deals would be the same as if you hadn't gotten your license, which means again all that time and expense will have gotten you no real added advantage. 

You can use the same techniques the wholesalers use, but KEEP the property for yourself to build wealth!   

The blanket technique doesn't really work but if you use the vacant house list and absentee list and probate etc.. you can laser target your campaign. 

Creative financing and various marketing techniques work throughout the real estate industry.  

Have you been successful trying your first suggested technique of agreeing to the offer but asking for them to pay for the repairs/closing costs?