I'd suggest you jump on a plane and make a trip.

They do but if a plane comes over my house the are in trouble....The airport maps noise which is the main reason for airport issues. 

smells shady to me, however the the fact that he wants to put as the leasse wouldn't concern me so much since would put his name and the LLC on the lease and you would take his personal social security # to run a background check either way, but the fact that he told you that he is planing to sublease it that a red flag to me.

Just curious if there is a sweet spot on planing renovations to occur or if it doesn't matter.  

Also are you planing to live in one unit?

But they are not and most of the time, they are multifaceted and that in a single plane.

@Kate FriedrickSome CPAs/EAs will allow you to mail/FedEx your source docs to them and they will scan in. 

I purchased a home in the Los Angeles area of Lake Balboa, which I planed to do a “live-in flip”.

At least 2,600 victims invested their retirement savings, totaling about $400 million.Shapiro siphoned off $35 million for his own benefit, according to prosecutors, spending $3.1 million for chartering private planes and travel, $6.7 million on a home, $2.6 million on home improvements, $1.8 million on personal income taxes, $1.4 million for his ex-wife, and more than $672,000 on luxury automobiles.Roseman received $2.5 million for himself and Acevedo received $1.1 million, prosecutors said.The Securities and Exchange Commission’s previous enforcement action in 2017 was settled in January for a total of $1 billion in penalties and disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, the agency said.

I purchased a home in the Los Angeles area of Lake Balboa, which I planed to do a “live-in flip”.