With the crescent volatility in prime markets such as Canada and USA, more people are putting their eyes onto other opportunities, places such as Southern Europe, Southeast Asia, Mexico, Colombia among others, seem to be gaining notoriety.

Bigger Pockets is the best place for advice (imo) but a lot of people get stuck when taking the plunge.

I know we can have a lawyer draft up a quit claim deed to get her sister off of the deed, but I have head this is similar to when people transfer ownership to LLC and could pull up the due on sale clause?

I do have a local group and have spoken at length with a number of people more experienced than me.

People often refinance to much money back out of the deal and turn the property into an alligator that no longer pays for its own PITI. 

What is your background with respect to real estate, finance, investing, etc and what is the help you feel you need?

His takeaway from his loss was that all debt is inherently bad and people should only buy investment homes in cash. 

There are too many varieties to be relaying on advice from people who haven't seen it and it's not their area of expertise.

The data help with the science part, but the art comes from your design vision and connections with people in market who can give you information about the areas where you are interested in investing.I have used a lot of tools, and right now I am using AirDNA and BNBCalc to get different data driven views on properties.  

And before people start labeling me as a  "housing crasher"-- I am not.