.), house hacking is relatively straightforward, relatively lower risk, relatively slower-paced, it teaches you all the fundamental lessons of REI and property management (which is crucial if you want to branch out into more advanced REI strategies), and it simultaneously lowers your expenses while increasing your income.

It is amazing to see that the fundamental discussions are still the same. 1% is just a general target that has been batted around for years, it use to be 2%.

Personally, I think there is a lot of hype around wholesaling as a beginner because it has the "possibility" of doing it with low money, but talking from experience wholesaling is hard and is a TRUE grind when you are trying to get going.Like anything else, I think the fundamentals are not that difficult, but you have to be willing to stay with it for months and months with potentially no deals because it's the consistent follow-up for months that starts generating deal flow. 

Here's a fundamental explanation to get your juices flowing:Assume a house costs $200,000 and rents for $1,500.

The following actions will assist you in starting your journey:Learn the fundamentals of real estate investment first.

I just don't see how there will be a crash fundamentally.

The market here seems to have pretty solid fundamentals for MTR/Travel nurses. 

People overlook some REI fundamentals in search of that great deal up front.I paid $40K over appraisal on my first small commercial multi... 8 unit that appraised for $660K.

In a softer rental market like we seem to be in now, it becomes much more important to focus on the boring fundamentals like controlling expenses.

That could be poor training, there are gaps in knowledge in his presentations, and it could be people are lazy and even if they spend lots of money, they don't study hard to learn the fundamentals and they spew bad information on the posts thinking they "have it down".