I am a Columbus investor and frequently am looking at zainesville when the c’bus craziness gets me sad.I’ve done no research on the fundamentals of the market because I don’t trust the ability to find a reliable property manager, which for me is a dealbreaker:1.

It is fundamental to your underwriting to figure out how much cash you need to put in and what the gross income potential is.

In my opinion, everything is hot right now and we investors just have to buy on good fundamentals and be patient.

This is the fundamental problem I have with Wall Street who takes too much fees off the hard-working efforts of the middle class.

@Sam LaGrassa You've listed one of the fundamental mistakes an investor can make, creating a business model on hope and speculation.

I have been reading the fundamentals about the different niches in real estate, but I would like to get real experience. 

@Morgan Klein - here is the fundamental error new landlords make. 

If I was in your shoes, I would start going through the Biggerpockets podcast and webinar archive and finding episodes that our geared towards beginners and the tips for networking, building a core group of contacts, and learning the fundamentals of finding and analyzing deals. 

The underlying investment has to be fundamentally sound. 

If you want to dig deeper into the details once you have the fundamentals down, find some books to study & start running the numbers on properties using the BP Calculators!