I would not recomed adding drywall unless our are planing on replaceing all the door and window trim as you will need to remove this and add jamb extensions to the doors and windows.Depending on what your plan is for the house your may be able to paint over it. 

This overdressed, overly made-up woman gets on a plane to Paris and goes and sits up in first class.

When you order the doorknobs, you can order two sets of cylinders, and then either leave the second set with your PM/handyman, or keep the second set and then FedEx them to a local service tech when you have a lost key or a tenant turnover.

I have about 150K in my HELOC and planing on using as my down payment for multiplex.

Having a deed prepared, fedexing to you, you sign, notarize and Fedex back to IN for recording is very easy and done hundreds of times a day. 

Hasn’t mattered with FEDEX and email.  

Or Plan B option: just sell those places entirely, and get on a plane. 

We have a guest that was supposed to arrive last night from Texas but her plane got delayed due to weather so she won't be arriving until today.

Hop on a plane and get over there if you have to.

2) From start to finish on a long-distance sale, can I just have them FedEx the docs and sign them with a notary, or is there a better way to handle things?