The employer splits the check into 2 parts.

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. 

Are you self-employed?

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

Are you employed?

Now my question, are US real estate firms willing to sponsor employers to obtain their citizenship?

In our rapidly changing world, I think the only relatively SAFE job is being self-employed.

Wouldn't I want to know vacancy rates and employment figures then, regardless of neighborhood?

In all the sales papers you get each day in the newspaper, when was the last time one of the large companies that have the big bucks to employ the best ad professionals.. well when was the last time they had the TACKY COLORED stuff?

Population losses are projected to continue through the end of the decade (-1.3% 2005-2009), employment growth 6 month rolling average: -3.3%, and unemployment 6 month rolling average: 8.8%.