It's also dependent on your role of active vs. passive, how much capital you have access to, and what role you're looking to do.Either way, for fundamentals I'd recommend:- Buying Real Estate Without Cash or Credit by Peter Conti and David Finkel- The Landlord's Survival Guide: How to Successfully Manage Rental Property as a New or Part Time Real Estate Investor by Jeffrey Taylor.

All of those fundamentals got me intrigued for the probability of low vacancy and potential to raise rents over time. 

PERPETUAL BULL MARKET irregardless of fundamentals, P/E, economic outlooks, unemployment, deflation/inflation, debt, bond rates, etc...

But over the long term, in the aggregate, people are generally rational, and the economic fundamentals underlying all of this are pretty simple.

You have to buy on fundamentals and not factor in much appreciation if any save for what might trend with inflation.The big question is if you buy something now and its on par with what you are paying in rent then thats a push and you have all the benefits of owning your own place, both psychologically and economically, if you are buying for speculation of it going up in value I would discount that.

It's like asking a pro athlete how they do something, the answer rarely goes beyond fundamentals and clichés. 

The investing fundamentals always seem to circle back to location and supply/demand.

It means understanding what RE is and can be, the possibilities, relationships of the fundamentals.

I apply technical and fundamental analysis rather than just fundamental analysis.

It feels like things have fundamentally changed.