Kansas City has job growth. ( https://www.bestplaces.net/economy/city/missouri/kansas_city)This economic growth has been led by the healthcare sector, finance, insurance, the automobile industry, IT, and manufacturing.

How is the most effective and economical way to setup an LLC?

Absolutely you have economic obsolescence and functional obsolescence..

Paul Samuelson, the US's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, said, "Investing should be like watching paint dry or watching grass grow.

Hmm, I can't think of any other pending global economic disasters.

They are one or two crises away from an economic bust.

I certainly have several significant real estate investors and clients that have temporarily 'paused' their searches in observance of economic conditions, but most of my mentors and $100M+ developer friends are forging ahead. 

I am a recent college graduate from UNM with my bachelors in Economics.

I'll paint you the broad strokes... if you own a property in the area, the EPA will test the property and basically give you an up or down, if the property gets a clean bill of health then any lender will lend in that area, conventional, fha, va type loans.

When it's full and alarm sounds and you spend hundreds on getting it pumped out.This is something that occurs in close proximity to lakes, ponds and streams and it dictated by either the Board of Health or the town's conservation department - and it makes the property far more difficult to sell.