It is typically better to just form the LLC in the state where you are doing business to avoid that.

If the latter, how is this typically handled with respect to escrow?

Has anyone experimented with direct mail to Multi-family apartment owners as to which has a better response rate: typical yellow letter simple postcards or more formal appearing letters?  

The lenders in my market are looking for the buyer to be clear on their ability to manage the property (you or your team), the reassurance they will get their money back (you may have to personally guarantee the loan) and the typical numbers (CAP, DCR, age, condition, etc.). 

Homes in the Raleigh Bartlett area are not typically sitting vacant for 60-90 days, none that I have seen.  

Zero of themhave reached the age of 35, which is typically the start of “high income/ wealth accumulation” period.

How does everyone typically find the owner of a property?

  ABSOLUTELY NOT  1031 has time restrictions to identify and purchase like kind and typically you'll  buy a more valuable and thus more expensive Rev gen property to avoid the punishing penalties paid on the Boot( cash in ha d because you selected an exchange property that was fewer dollars than The sale price of last property go to irs site and read sec 1031 it's been there a hundred years it's really clear 

Equity is subject to opinion of value, typically by an appraiser.

@Brant Garner typically I am pretty risk adverse my main concern is that I will be able to finance it conventionaly down the road and sell it to another investor.