They are hands-off, institutional grade real estate investments, and they allow you the option to diversify.

Is there something easy that could be done being that it is family and not an institution?

I simply meant that deals (Apartment complexes) have been acquired creatively, not just traditionally through a lending institution.

In the MLS you will find every type of description of houses, for example; estate, foreclosed, vacant, motivated seller, institutional seller, REO, bank-owned, divorce forces sale, etc..  

If you don't want to hand your SSN out to 20 different institutions, a local independent mortgage broker will be able to run your credit once and show you wholesale rate/fee options from dozens of banks and lenders.

Instead, because of our portfolio of single family homes, its difficult to find institutional money for less than 6% at 70% LTV.

I know there are institutional funds (Blackstone probably being the largest) but haven't found any that would make sense for the high net worth individual investor.

I could be wrong, but I thought that inherited property was exempt from the due on sale clause option(Garn-St.Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982).https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/1701j-3Brian

But, are you referring to auctions that the lending institutions hold ....or are you referring to auctions private companies hold after the foreclosure sale ... or are you referring to pre-foreclosure auctions ? 

Title companies recognize this, unlike buying from a non-institutional lender.