I found the following article to be interesting:https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/homelessness-soars...Nobody wants homeless people in their neighborhoods yet those very people buying the houses in today's market are in a way, contributing to the growing population of homelessness (in the markets mentioned in the article of course). 

Additional upside can be found in the areas you mentioned - ease of access, economy of scale with service providers, time efficiency for management, possibly offering additional price points in your portfolio, ...Contiguous property is worth more to adjacent owners.

However, this experiment in crowd-sourcing has resulted in a sort of local semi-celebrity status, with numerous mentions in area magazines, blogs, and whatnot.

@Sean Walton mentioned keeping other buyers lined up in case the first buyer falls through.

That doesn't make sense since you are living in it.As Gordon mentioned, take advantage of living there.

Are there any Utah (Salt Lake City/Provo) focused multi-family investors available and willing to talk cap rates, yields and debt for B/C class properties in the mentioned areas between 15 and 100 units?

I'd be interested if anyone has any recommendations of a title company in NC who could do this for the $50 mentioned above?

Like previously mentioned a joint-venture would be a good idea, you have some money saved up that you could bring to the table and would help you get into a property sooner (although not 100% owner).

Again, nothing new but no mention of these issues and no seller disclosures so far. 

She has no savings and no investments (yes, I know, we are working on fixing that) but fortunately she has no student loan debt or anything besides her car and credit card payments mentioned above.Now, I'm aware of some on the low and no down payment options for her (FHA, USDA, I'm almost positive she can't get a VA loan but I'll double check), but the sticking point would be the monthly payments.