It was the same thing with the replacement tenant that the current tenant found, where there were suspicious red flags about that replacement tenant.

Banks also have to report other suspicious activities to FinCEN, but a gift from a foreigner, by itself, is fairly common in the immigrant communities and will not raise suspicion.

Depositing $50K in cash, which WILL have to happen at some point in this transaction will require the bank to do a "suspicious transaction report". 

It seemed to work as advertised, but some things seemed suspicious.  

I think the deal is too suspicious to continue with but I will try another agent just as an experiment to see what happens.

If the landlord has 20 rentals, then it's more suspicious.

My guess is (since I haven't researched the matter) that County Auditors in Ohio are probably not supposed to use a transfer price automatically as the property's assessed value, but there frequently seems to be an awefully suspicious coincidence between the assessed value and a recent sale of property....

The IRS can more suspicious of personal use when you own a car in your business depending on what you do and where you do it.

I am not seeing anything in here that looks suspicious for this address we're under contract for but also not sure what to look for. 

It was suspicious when I realized that the landlord of the applicant was deaf just like the applicant was deaf.