Newbie moving to Kansas City, want to house hack duplex

[Kevin Davies]

Hello! This is my first post here at BP. My family and I are moving (work transfer) to Kansas City later this year, and I am very interested in starting out in REI. I've been studying and preparing for quite a while, and feel that this move is going to help position us to get started. I'm open and hopeful to get into a duplex/triplex to start off (house hack). However, we don't know the area extremely well (ahem...not at all), and are hoping to find a Realtor who could help us hone in on some areas and find some properties that could work for us...both from a numbers standpoint and from a comfort-level-of-living-there standpoint. We are coming out to visit/get to know the area in a month and would like to meet up with said Realtor then. Thanks in advance for any help and direction!