@Michael Dentico Hello Michael and welcome to this BP site and this is a wonderful place to start, develop relationships, learn, grow as Real Estate Entrepreneur and investor and most important gain knowledge, skills and ability.

However; he does tout network marketing and the skills it gives you.

Make sure when you approach those with the knowledge and skills you would like to have, you bring them something that will be valuable to them in return.

He's constantly talking about how you need to bring the skills you are good at into your real estate investing, and find others to fill in the gaps (and your own shortcomings)It has occurred to me that one of the big ways that I can still bring value added is through my architectural skills. 

Networking is a skill you can improve on just like real estate.

I would recommend that second job be in the construction field, real estate field, or something associated with a skill set that coincides with house flipping.Then you want to learn your market and start talking to people about raising investment capital.

There are too many things that can go wrong.I would work on making as much as you can with your current skill set and save as much as possible.

I think people are unwilling to give up vacations, date nights, hobbies, cars, in pursuit of there goals.  

I would recommend you add your comments but please know that no one with any critical thinking skills relies on that estimate - including Zillow.

Personally I believe, not all, but most people on Section 8 are of a certain socioeconomical demographic which tend to have a different set of problem solving and coping skills in life (which can be a contributing factor to destruction of property more than others) and that in and of itself is what makes me shy away from the idea of Section 8 tenants.