Prices seem to have more than doubled in not-that-long of a timeframe which makes me nervous, but at the same time it seems to me like there have been true fundamental shifts in the Atlanta market driving the price increases.

And fundamentally, I don't like a lot of Airbnb's policies that unduly favor the guest and can result in them holding onto your payables or suspending your account with little to no explanation.

I would probably want to detour this a bit to talk about an underlying issue that is outside of fundamentals, analysis, and credit risk when investing abroad.

Jacksonville had good fundamentals, Greenville is a place to watch.

The town has the right fundamentals for me.

At worst, these markets are "value traps" ... high yield but only because they have flawed fundamentals and chasing high yield on an asset that goes down in value over time and is likely to have a dividend cut in the future, so high risk of a negative total return.At the other extreme, there are markets like SF, LA, NYC.

I don't really think that's the case relative to real estate investing as it's fundamentally more tactical than it is philosophical.

There is absolutely no transaction dealing in real estate that is not anchored in basic business law, real estate law, or the fundamentals of real estate!

By the way, I'm not married to the 50% Rule if the decades-long rental business fundamentally changes due to political change.

<< -- Reed perhaps fails to understand that if someone has read 20 books on real estate investing, the 21st book will cover much of the same ground but in different words.Having read a great many books myself, I am indeed happy to uncover one new idea in the next book I read.As has been emphasized repeatedly on this site, the fundamentals of investing succesfully in real estate are relatively simple, but putting them into actual practice is often very difficult.