One time I had a guest smoke and it went right up the ducts into my unit, it was awful.I'm conscious about how that could potentially affect guests who will be staying in the upper unit in the future.

Investing out of state in the KCMO area sounds like a smart move; it’s such an interesting market with plenty of potential.

And that's the very WORNG thought path too many have coming into such, they think it assures future returns. 

The best example of this is the people who rather than pay a blended 15% tax on profit when they sell a property go through all gyrations to exchange into another property - not one they want or one that is the highest cash flow or best appreciation potential - no they give all that up just so they can squeeze into the window of time needed to do the 1031 exchange.  

Since it’s in a business entity, it doesn’t show up on your personal credit report or affect your DTI, giving you more flexibility for future financing.

Tip: Take a couple videos of the place fully furnished before anyone moves in and send them as video tours to potential tenants on FurnishedFinder when they ask to see the place.

That they wanted "Cheap" buys, not intelligent buy's, not data driven buys, not future casting buys, just "cheap". 

I wish you the best in your future! 

There are other questions you need to answer in order to see if there are potential obstacles?

Those are old enough to see some that need extreme updating and could potentially have value add component with a decent spread.