If your motivation to stay in Kansas City proper is because you are working in KCMO and are required to live there for your job or feel you need to live there because you are paying the city earnings taxes, stay WEST of Holmes and SOUTH of 95th Street in Kansas City with zip code of 64131 or around there. It is still an acceptable (reasonably safe) area and priced more reasonably.Try Willow Creek Apartments (big complex with pool) which is at 99th and Wornall or south of there down near Devry. Remember that with cheap rent, you get riffraff, more noise, more crime, etc.If you would consider Johnson County, the two complexes with pools south of 103rd and Conser in Overland Park are very reasonable (alot less than the brand new places) and spacious (900 sq ft in a 1 BR). I don t know the new names for them, but if you don t live here and need to know the names, I will drive by on my way to the office.
BELTON, RAYMORE, PECULIAR or HARRISONVILLE, are all nice areas.Grandview/Ruskin Heights is not the safest area
You don t want to live in South Kansas City, MO.