My concerns are not in places like Houston, or Dallas.I am talking about parks in oil country, where the bigger employers are Oil Services.

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Employers leaving, high crime, etc

Any increase in the numbers that work out of the house will still be at the permission of the employer...and the employer will still want to have the employee capable of face to face.Also, what you describe could just as easily increase the number of urban tenants for the very same reasons you're thinking the opposite. 

You will face a lot of rejection employing this strategy regardless of your level of experience. 

Self employed is often AKA UN-employed!

I also can't imagine that the cost would be any more than employing all those TSA employees and scanners.

He runs a paving business, the leader in the county.

My employer (a bank) restricts me and other employees from investing in real estate (we have to disclose all outside business activity).

They are given to self-employed borrowers with scores over 680 , and must have a clean history.