These areas are what locals sell to out of state investors :) Come on guys... These areas are catching the bleed of the ghetto gentrifing and a dieing base of older industry driven generation. I doubt the GM plant will make it much longer, and anybody that lives in the MO burbs is in the Northland, Parkville, or Lee Summit. Blue Springs is still pretty decent, but i don't see things getting better for any of those areas.
Independence is still suffering from the meth epidemic, Raytown declines being next to Independence and catching people losing housing from the city cleaning up crime from the west. Grandview catches the bleed of Ruskin becoming a ghetto rental nightmare. Not a fan of the construction from those eras either.
People in there 20's and 30's continue to come to the city or go to Johnson county as it's the nicest suburbs in the metro area. I would rather invest and go with the 1 percent rule in Johnson county than mess with anything that will continue to decline.