Of course, you’ll have to wire transfer money to the closing title company.....note, get Verbal confirmation from the closing title company or attorney for the wire instructions.....a common scam now is hackers hacking title company/real estate agent emails, sending you fake wire instructions, and your money is gone forever into some scammers bank account.

You cannot easily transfer them into an LLC without triggering the lender's due on sale clause, though I read recently that may be changing. 

- the titles of each property will be transferred to the child series within the parent series LLC. - child LLC / property A will be protected from a lawsuit filed against child LLC / property B- i will pay taxes only in the state in which i operate the properties, not in Delaware.

Utilities unpaid and had to jump through hoops to get the transferred to my name because of this.

There is a lot more to the LLC question - when to do it, how to do it, current mortgage, proper transfer to preserve title insurance chain, DOS, future financing, management, distribution of properties per entity, insurance, partners, etc. - stuff barely touched in current thread.Here is a diagram to help you on your quest: asspro-cya-diagram

However, your tenant should still be capable of submitting a transfer to your bank account. 

I am completely unfamiliar with how a tenant transfer happens and can't find a whole lot other than we inherit any current leases along with our tenants. 

This creates a transfer of wealth from the lender (bank) to the debtor (you). 

All utilities are still in my mother's name as well, and I am just now in the process of having the deed transfered to my name as soon as I finalize estate duties.

Took about 20 mins for me to transfer to someone else.