Fourthly, buy "The California Landlord's Law Book" by an organization called NOLO.

And truth is it's far FAR more weighted on a person, the personality, vs any company organization or lack there of. 

I own a marketing company and a  Non-profit organization for assisting homeless veterans. 

Or go to a conference sponsored by one of the organizations that does them (PitBull has one in AZ coming up next week), if you want to learn about the lending world. 

One month deposit and written clarification of who will pay for damage and organize the repairs.

That said, I felt that the organization of the information could be better that in and of itself did not prevent me from being able to understand the information.

Any advice on how to organize all this information into a coherent plan?

There is an active real estate meetup organizer in PCB as well.

Head out to one, find an investor doing the type of investing that you also want to focus on, and offer to help them for free with whatever they may need (finding deals, marketing, painting their flip, organization, etc) in exchange for their mentorship throughout your first deal.

As in, an organization, or just not profitable?