I have a friend that lives on the west coast and buys up these cheap houses to slow flip all  over the midwest.

Continue Funding my Mid west BRRRR clients like the land if we get history I provide 100% of purchase and 100% of rehab and there is no monthly payments really helps these guys / gals scale..

In the Kansas City metro area the river runs roughly west to east.

For cash flow-focused investments, consider neighborhoods on the west or south sides, like Speedway or Southport, but be mindful of local market trends and tenant quality.

Many of the investors that I work with are from the West coast or the Northeast and it just doesn't make sense for them to invest around where they live.  

Prior to the GFC I had a pretty robust HML company with 20 plus employees doing 60 HML a month through out the mid west Rust belt and deep south by 2010 It was over like 95% of all HML we all got our butts handed to us..

Large Metros get this.You should be looking in growth markets which have higher cap rates - but the future projection is they will decrease.Mid-west for instance. 

@Steve Vaughan  when we went through the 08 to 2010 debacle and over 200 landlords handed me back their houses.. and lost ALL their money... it was an eye opener and they were all landlords all west coast based   a few on east coast.but they walked..  

Location says Ann Arbor but we are in a smaller town west of there. 

Some areas we push owners to invest in are West Allis, Bayview, Wauwatosa, and several neighborhoods in Milwaukee, including Riverwest, Harambe, and the East Side.