Obscure markets don't usually have enough of an economic engine to bring you rents you're looking for anyways.Make sure a market fundamentally meets your investment criteria first.

Don't rush it and stick to the fundamentals.

A read some posts from a few years ago which seemed to conclude that it didn’t have a lot of the fundamentals necessary for a good market.

The fundamentals are there - good job market, good local economy, ever increasing immigration.

Fundamentally, pricing a fixed income asset is a function of variables like interest rate environment, loan performance history, loan to value, property characteristics, borrower characteristics, state-specific metrics and a laundry list of things you might want to include as variables in your model. 

@Everest JordanGood thoughts, however I don't see how most of that would directly affect our purchasing or design decisions in real estate.In my opinion, it's good to be thinking about these things, but in terms of mind-share in evaluating macro items, I'd much rather be thinking about fundamental economic indicators for an area we're investing in, or the overall domestic (US) market. 

But if you build you own fundamentals and foundation, then all you have to do is take action.

I feel that I have enough fundamental knowledge about RE investing.I have a business that gives me very good income with which I can afford to invest around $200k every year and can do $300k as initial investment.After listening and reading about different asset classes, I think I am specifically interested in:1.

This cannot go on forever, in the long run the fundamentals of the market will win out and force rates up.

Like anything else, nobody is going to care for your properties like you will, and learning good property management techniques is a fundamental part of real estate investing.