If you are doing a conventional loan your income would be verified by tax returns, pay stubs, and W-2 forms.

You have to take information you independently verify and determine what your risk is from that information.

Documentary tax stamp deed to the Clerk of Court [ I verified this as correct for our area]J.

IE; If you are looking at a P/L for last August, but annual property taxes are due November, you are not getting a good "monthly" snapshot.If this is due diligence, you will also want to verify the data being placed into revenue and expense.

Just ask for two previous addresses and check to verify.

There are so many lost opportunities relying on assumptions that aren't accurate and easily verified.

I would use a service such as vacationrentaldesk.com for this.A direct booking is no more risky than a booking through VRBO or Airbnb; they aren’t verifying identity, either.In fact, my own company has taken thousands of reservations over 19 years, and we don’t verify identity.  

It is career ending.Take the time to learn the law, know how to verify ownership and reduce the trouble you will encounter along the way.

They will verify what we send, and if they agree, we assign the contract to their company & we enter a JV agreement with them agreeing to split the profit 60% us, 40% them or 50/50 depending on the deal.  

You can hire an agent just to show and be a body if they are willing, While its not perfect, ChatGPT is a great tool to ask initial questions and get a launching pad (always verify what it tells you)  - @Drew Sygit - Good point about getting someone to help you with screening if they dont have any "skin in the game" so to speak.