-Do not spend $12,000 on a mentor-Do consult with an attorney regarding how to title your properties in your personal financial situation.

It's reasonable for the same to apply in your situation.

I'd rather not have multiple hard credit pulls to find the right lender. 

Anyone in this situation, would like a 5-minute phone call on this if you can help! 

I contacted multiple local attorneys with no response, and I can't get a response from the Montgomery County Sheriff's office.

Pick one that is commenting on your specific situation and DM them. 

You put two different people in the exact same distressed situation and both will act completely differently.

Hi Michael, I live in Seattle but own multiple doors (SFH and MFH) across the city of Detroit.

Some larger broker outlets will give the option to have the loan processed and underwritten with them but this isn't the norm (UWM comes to mind as a big lender who now gives the broker this option of taking care of all of the processing or certain aspects of the processing which they call "processor assist" - this is fairly unique as far as I'm aware however).There are so many little variables to every situation but generally speaking, if an MLO is skipping over the spot where his/her license hangs and taking a deal somewhere direct, there wouldn't be a compliant way to pay the MLO.  

And if you want you could allocate your proceeds into multiple replacement properties if you want.