Have you asked the person who trained you for direction? 

I've done some with owner financing, I have taken personal loans, and I have paid cash for the property.

Should the landlord on the lease be our LLC or our personal names?

So instead of driving around you can use pin to find the property and the person.  

I have personally seen this come to 30-50% of the value of the home.

FWIW there's locations here in CA where you can (in person) get fake DL, SS card, I9 cert, smog cert etc.

All expenses must be paid from retirement funds. ( You can't use any personal funds or credit cards to pay bills on the rental). 

It almost seems to good to be true to be able to get the same returns as a Certificate of Deposit.https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/best-high-yield-s...

But, personally I wouldn't start the renovation until I'd had done a background check on the person who lost the property, to see if they have other assets they could sell to redeem the property or relatives who might help them out. 

I am not one of those.I do personal communications with all the guests and they have my cell so they can call or text.