Unfortunately she wanted an arm and a leg for the downtown commercial property and the country multi family had a driveway that was too steep for me to consider with our winters and was in a bad spot.

If we turn the tables and say it could be a 95% failure ratio. ( doubt it's ever that high but just for conversation sake) In general for the whole country if we count everyone.

They know I live out of states even out of country sometimes.

The industry is literally DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY! 

We invest in other areas of the country and its not quite the same.

Recently I have been thinking about investing out of the state/ country.

This was across the country, not just Kansas City Specific. 

@River Sava has a pretty big network of realtors across the country; reach out to her if you want to be connected with an investor-friendly agent.

Our company is very much involved with the MD investor market from Baltimore to DC suburbs to the Eastern Shore, so anybody looking to talk contracts/terms, networking, JVing with other investors, and now it sounds like more attempted anti-investor legislation... feel free to connect.

Because if they held on to their properties, they would be almost 2/3 of the way done with their mortgage and values have bounced back and likely exceed in most parts of the country.