They don't budget well, that's the only reason they don't have a place of their own, and that probably won't change, they're nearing middle age.

I find if your rents are in the middle range most tenants will not move for 25 or 50 dollars per rental month savings .

Then you have to look up your own credit score and I assume provide them with proof of 700 middle score.If you are interested in them, I would just contact them and ask many questions.I do not see a privacy policy on the website nor a way to cancel or back out once committed.This could be remedied with a phone call to them.

Throw in a round trip plane ticket, hotel, rental car, food, etc. and it doesn't take long before a short trip can cost you $2K if you're going back east.  

Also there is usually a pattern to the lay out of different models, certain ones on the ends, middle, or whatever.

Raytown and most parts of Independence are certainly better than Ruskin, which is pretty rough, especially the middle of it.

Eliminating the "middle woman/man".

East or west sider?

Specifically, are there passive investors operating in a middle ground between the "buy distressed/manage entire rehab yourself" folks and those that go hands off for turnkeys?

are their any specifications or is it just a generalizations, for exampleA=upper middle class+/high income or business ownersB=working middle class/median salery of $80,000+C=Section 8/low incomeD=warzoneI just happened to put in anything above just for examples.