It is located in an area that attracts college students/employees, working class families, and military families.

Short of that, you may target employees of Canada-based companies with a presence in KC (this is easy to find on LinkedIn).

That is, banks that are connected enough to have, umm, “fewer regulatory issues” and ex-employees or soon-to-be employees “regulating” them.

I would guess that an employee in the zoning department could answer questions, too.  

Yesterday I reached several Fishers' City employees and a member of the Nickel Plate Review Committee none of whom had ever heard of Goodin Development. 

As I mentioned above, we're both W2 employee. 

As an employee of a MF Development Company, your boss will expect you to dedicate full-time hours to your job.

The PMS around here are pretty terrible, I've worked with a lot of the larger ones in Cleveland and I think they just take on more properties than they can effectively handle and don't hire enough additional employees to make it work. 

Many opt for other investing methods in their SDIRA like private lending, crypto, private equity...anything except collectibles and life insurance.Note that a Solo 401k is exempt from UBIT on leveraged real estate so if you have self employment activity and no full time employees save for you and your spouse you should consider the Solo K as an option. 

They put one of their employees into one of my houses, and after I switched to a new property manager, that tenant stopped paying rent (amazing!)