337: Fortune Favors The Brave

Increasingly, Real Estate investors on the coasts are deploying money into the Midwest. Not only are these markets less expensive, but many of them are thriving like never before, and are less volatile. Markets like Columbus, Indianapolis, Kansas City and several others are seeing massive job and population growth. People are leaving the coasts and moving to these markets for a higher quality of life. Lee Ripma, a multifamily broker and investor, started investing in Kansas City and moved during covid from L.A. to make KC her primary market for both living and investing. Lee chose Kansas City based on a Google search for the nation’s top 10 most affordable markets and never turned back.