Our property is within a five minute drive to Montana’s well-known Flathead Lake.

You can drive for dollars.

It is not your car and you can't drive it until you have ownership, which means title and registration. 

He has to go to the job, find out what the issue is, then drive to HD, to get the necessary materials, stand in line at the check out, then drive back and actually do the work.

One reason we wanted Reno NW is its a quick drive down the hill for us.

I would manage it, since it is in an area that is hot and in which I have 3 other homes I manage, so I drive through at least once a week.  

You likely know that, but people write it as such all the time and it drives me crazy.

I think your 7-hour distance is a serious drawback that will cause serious problems with dealing with contractors and the time to complete the project will take 1 to 2 years if you are not hands-on and not driving the contractors to do good work and complete the work within a reasonable amount of time. 

Call the City Office or drive down yourself if you are local to the area and is convenient for you.Would you use a commercial lender since you will be going from a residential property to commercial? 

Do you have a reliable lead generation engine akin to those described by BP podcast guests who are always from the US: driving for dollars, DM campaigns, cold calling via virtual assistants, evergreen website with traffic directed from SEO paid word searches, etc?