.- Serious marketing efforts to commercial owners manually (or use VAs) to jump through the Secretary of State website for each owning LLC to get the agent (often an attorney) and the names of the members.- Use missing persons search to get contact info on the LLC members.- Yes mail a letter to the agent (often an attorney) but be clear who you are addressing:  Dear Agent for ABC LLC, Members Jon Doe, Jane Doe etc.  

You would maintain your California LLC as the primary entity and file paperwork with the Ohio Secretary of State to become authorized to do business there. 2. 

We obtained copies of the titles to most of them, but they're in a business name and nobody (Secretary of State, Clerk of Court, Tax Office, or DMV) seems to know who is legally responsible for the business.

When I look at the Illinois Secretary of State website I can located every property with one search. because the entire series is published by the state.A single member LLC can treat their LLC as a disregarded entity and it flows through to their personal income tax return.

To look up the LLC go to your secretary of state website and there should be a link to find out the stakeholders. 

Takes, maybe, five minutes on the secretary of state's web site:http://www.sos.state.co.us/biz/FileDocNameAvailCri...Creating an LLC won't change the ownership of your property.  

., I understand that the statutory representative needs a physical address in the state, and that address is disclosed on the Secretary of State documents.

@Isaac AgbolosooWhile just about anyone could probably file the necessary articles with the secretary of state, the purpose of creating an entity usually includes some liability protection that depends on proper setup and use of the entity.

In most states, you can be invisible to someone searching the secretary of state site for ownership.

You'll find some very experienced investor's and they're willing to share their knowledge with new investor's.As for the LLC, you can either set it up yourself on the Oregon Secretary of State's website (not recommended), or you can work with an attorney (one who specializes in real estate would be best) to set it up for you (recommended), which should run you around $600 initially (depending on the complexity) and $100 a year to renew.Good luck.