However, I hope you know stock market is in most case just luck.

Any flip "properly assessed" should more than cover the $1000...I believe Josh or Brandon as well as numerous other including Kiyosaki have posts and books on why real estate out performs stocks.

Should I consider it part of the mortgage principle?

I always had about 8k a year left over after tuition and I saved that money and used it in the stock market. 

I haven't done any deals yet but I have been playing around in the stock market a bit to get enough money to start investing in real estate which is my ultimate goal and what I've been studying like crazy the last few months.

Just a bunch of weird facts and events occurring that he has tied all into this conspiracy theory leading up to this September.In the video, he thinks we should all buy gold, stock on water/food and ammo to prepare ourselves.   

The other reason being that from what my friends who invest in the china stock market have told me, the small individual investors who got in late are the ones hardest hit, however this is not the demographics that has the means to buy houses in the USA. 

The lower your payment the easier it will be to pay your monthly cost of principle, interest, taxes, insurance, maintenance etc.

The principles of real estate investment work the same, but there are no groups of real estate investors out here.

I'm 25 years old and have mainly focused on index investing in the stock market over the past 6 years.