For LLC, you can wait until you actually purchase the property because most like you will not be able to put the rental in the LLC unless you are buying it with all cash. 

I guess I’ll just wait to move first.

I have been waiting over 10 days for return phone call or email from lawyer.  

well you are about to launch into a financial deal with someone for usually hundreds of thousands and most wont' ask for any of this.. and just take whatever the person presents as fact.So I would if I was looking for a new partner ( and most of mine are a decade or longer so pretty good track record but we all have to start somewhere)  I think you want those basic items.In my day of HML when I used to lend to the general public and do 200 to 300 loans a year it was amazing what you turned up.when we set out to put our network together it was also amazing what you found out about ground partners.. 

Wait for traditional financing. ( end of 2019 - would force me to rent too long )4.

this means that the client becomes ,wait for it,  a true Lazyboy landlord. 

So after you're done rehabbing, if you transfer title back into your name, you'll have to wait an additional 6 months (unless you want to be limited by the purchase price as your value).

We have no idea when they will be back in town, but could also wait until then and try to speak about it in person...How would you guys handle it?  

The proverb of old says "Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out", it is as applicable today as it was thousands of years ago.I think Brian is correct, the reason many get in trouble because they read all of the misinformation on the web, there are some yea-sayers out-there (even here on BP, but most of the times they get corrected) who will tell you "yes, you can do this" and lead others into trouble.

If you can not wait till tenants move out on their own, allowing you to do electrical during vacancy, I would non renew one tenant at a time to complete the necessary work.