Access to the property - Can you easily access the property? 

If needed I could easily put my finger on any information needed years from now, even after those thermal receipts have faded.I don't think you need an invoice if you can prove you made the payment for a tax deductible item.An invoice by itself just shows you were billed, it doesn't show you actually made the payment.

You can find these on Amazon pretty easily.

I can collect rent online, screen my own tenants(without paper and checks), Send communications easily, and I can access everything from my phone.

If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

You could easily lose $50-$100k GAMBLING on a future price drop.

- can I easily change between the two?

My question is if I’m going that far out and don’t have a car to easily get to the property is it better to do an out of state deal that is in a more ideal location since it sounds like I would be doing similar work.  

As was mentioned, you can always easily go from STR > LTR but not the reverse....And I also thought about the LTR tenant downstairs at the mercy of the STR partiers upstairs... so if you go STR/LTR, I would definitely do the bottom as the STR/Just my .02......

You can easily cash flow about $5000/ month or more if you find the right property OOS.