The problem is if the house hasn't had any work in the past 30 years, like no electrical ground and lead piping.I'm still eyeing this one beautiful five story mansion in central Maastricht, but it'll be at least 200.000 EUR rehab in electricity, plumbing, roofing and isolation.Rubbish fundamentals on awesome fundamentals.

It's a simple fundamental rule of life, to use ones head for more then a neck-weight, do an ounce of research to confirm if someone/something is legit or pumping sunshine up your tail-pipe.

Naturally you'd buy based on good fundamentals and the gamble is just on the startup costs of furnishings, vacancy, etc.

The disagreement isn't semantics -- it's one of fundamentals.  

I generally feel like there are strong fundamentals to the prices in the DC market.  

Real Estate is a fundamental economic variable.

Surely, I am not the only person who, senses a fundamental change that will inevitably occur in our "free market" ecomonic system, fears how the devaluation of our national currency may as a result, force us to transition toward a more government regulated economy in exchange for a unified monetary system that limits systemic risk to the overall global economy.

It’s one thing to bet on something with good fundamentals.

We want the system to work so much And therein lies the fundamental appeal, and ultimate trouble, of get-rich-quick (GRQ) strategies.

And that guy was not the most financially qualified tenant I got ... most of them had higher W2s than me :) Damn, I shouldn't have sold that property :( Actually, for SoCal looking at the interactive maps in the original article linked (which are super cool BTW), I got the impression that San Diego may be slightly less overpriced than LA or Riverside as it has not gone as crazy in the recovery and the market fundamentals of supply, demand, jobs, etc. are every bit as solid as far as I know, unless somebody else knows something that I don't (entirely probable).