These providers are doing "high volume" and quality suffers apparently.

C properties in rough neighborhoods can work, but you want to do it where it's very easy to remove tenants, and you want to do it in a place where there is strong rental demand in those neighborhoods so you suffer the effects of turnover as little as possible.I don't know about KCMO exactly, but I know that cities like detroit and cleveland offer similar numbers in those types of neighborhoods but it's very hard to find and keep good tenants due to the size of the tenant pool vs. the size of the housing pool.

I was a long time runner, and the years that my training suffered were when I moved to Japan and lost my training partners.  

Arcata is dominated by the University and a more affluent population typically while Eureka, the county seat, is a more diverse economy yet suffering from crime and squalor. 

You could also consider some greenery inside with some plants or a vase with faux stems to give it some warmth. 

Elon Musk's Texas business empire continues to mushroom.The latest expansion plans include a sprawling Travis County campus for brain-computer interface startup Neuralink Corp. and a potential lithium battery plant for Tesla Inc. near Corpus Christi.Tesla could eventually develop a roughly $365 million battery-grade lithium hydroxide refining facility near Robstown, in Nueces County, according to the applications.

Honda has invested $3.5 Billion in Fayette County for a plant that will make batteries for electric vehicles. https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/automotive/2023/02/28/ev-battery-plant-in-fayette-county-to-employ-2200-workers/69933524007/According to Licking County Auditor records, Amazon Data Services Inc.

Paint the grass green, trim the shrubs, maybe plant a nice little tree. 

Power plants closing, coal mines closing and further restrictions on oil and gas drilling.

Home to The Ohio State University with nearly 60,000 students, 5 Fortune 500 companies, over +25% population change since 2000, 2016 smart city challenge award winner gaining 50 million dollars in funding from the government (https://www.columbus.gov/smartcity/), Intel is spending 20 Billion dollars to build two semiconductor plants, and many more great things presently and coming in the future.