Unprecedented levels of investment in private and public projects have made Kansas City a major entertainment and employment hub.The Kansas City economy is diverse with numerous employment opportunities and a growing population.

If you ARE occupying, you'll need to be able to qualify using your income, employment history and DTI.

One reason eastern KY really lags behind is that they don't have a lot of employment opportunities and lower populations.

Our market is stable with strong job growth from major employers moving and developing here like Meta, Intel, Amazon, etc.

The great thing about living in a high cost of living area is that your salary / wages are hopefully also very high.If you are a new college grad, I would focus the next 1-3 years on increasing your salary as much as possible(gain new skills, new certifications, change employers, etc).Once you make more money, you can easily get in a position to buy a property on a more frequent basis.Best of luck!

. #3: onshoring base-line manufacturing (a) creates more employment opportunities for both skilled and unskilled labor (b) creates more employment opportunities of jobs that elevate and train unskilled too skilled labor  (c) raises base-line wages and benefits via competition for unskilled labor (d) elevates the entire economic chain via more domestic circulation of $ and (e) less exporting of USD #4: stopping illegal immigration defends and protects legal immigration.

At some point, if your business takes off, the single member LLC gives you optionality to move to an S Corp (which typically means less self employment taxes). 

I had capital and employment and properties from the start.

As I mentioned in my previous responses to this thread, I am employed by LoanGuys as a customer service representative.

We have record employment, all of our retail is booming, housing is still selling.