The best deals will all have a handful of financial ratios/percentages in a certain range.

"How do I get started in CA?"

I want to build a small SFH or STR  on it. 

How do you get double the rent?

How do you approach educating people on the realities of the business? 

We are not the right choice for everyone, but we do help hundreds of investors every year start and progress their investing goals.

This might sound rude (it isn't meant to be), but it makes no difference to me whether someone decides to do it or not.

The reason being they see no benefit and they do not understand it. 

Meet with financial advisers/wealth managers and see what other options other than real estate there are and how to best allocate / diversify. ie have you maxed out your TFSA?

Some attorney somewhere may have a "fool proof" way of doing them, but I haven't seen one yet that satisfies me.I have spent a lot of time in court over title issues and won each time, but it takes away from doing the thing you'd rather do.  100% agree.