Have you verified that?

Title companies need to insist everyone use a trusted notary, not just any random remote notary, and take additional steps for any remote closings such as holding funds in escrow after any remote closing until they can 100% verify that they’re not going to be wired to a scammer overseas. 

Make sure to verify all information and ideally speak with an experienced investor who acquires in the respective state before proceeding. 

Take care of anything that needs to be done to your condo while you're advertising the vacancy and showing the unit to prospective tenants.If you get a good, tidy tenant -- which you can verify if you have an opportunity to visit after the tenant has moved in -- you may be able to advertise the unit near the end of the tenant's term and get the tenant to show the unit.

Verify everything the sellers have said is correct.

The DSCR's are 30 year fixed just using income from the properties rather than verifying your income .

Thank you for verifying ! 

So, my question to the community is: What steps should I take to verify the identity of the husband without causing undue tension or confrontation?

Verifying last 2 years of rental history very important!

As property manager we have the right and the physical and electronic safety guards to capture their SS number if they have one (this required an on site visit to our office to verify that each computer was password protected, that we had locking file cabinets etc).