The best place to start is by reading books and having a fundamental knowledge of how to evaluate and acquire your type of property, buy and holds. 

There does seem to be discontent with the flow of loans making their way to closing, this is from comments and conjectures not from hard statistical data.History is the best guide to reading the fundamental signs in any market.

Your cure for poor credit but otherwise solid fundamentals - and a foreclosure several years ago should be filtering down by now - is a secondary market with higher interest rates.

But realistically people in the low end housing in the midwest lead fundamentally unstable lives.

But, I see so many newbies on here who do not even realize a basic fundamental - knowing that one can actually LOSE money in this biz.Do you own your own home, or do you rent?  

What would be a good guide for more current fundamentals?

That's my fundamental concern here.

This is one of the fundamental debates for financial theory.

Now that we understand the fundamentals of air rights, how can they add value for real estate investors?

Chasing the highest initial cash flow on paper rarely beats the solid historical markets with long term fundamentals and short most times.