I will keep you posted of the progress and how the funnel pans out if you like. 

Any clarification on how this really pans out would help a lot, thanks.

What you describe is throwing all of your money to the wall and hoping it pans out. 

@Megan T. in today's environment, I would recommend shopping your rate.

It'd be interesting to see how things panned out a year later.

Assuming that all pans out - what utilities are present?

@Yizhou Pan Try to get in at 1% or more.  

I deal with that all the time. what I check if a person has an "undocumented status" and/or "undocumented" income/work is the following:1. current place where they live and reason for moving - this gives me an idea how my place will look like when they move out2. 2 or 3X security deposit. 3. verification of income (if they have bank account). many of them have TIN number that allows them to open bank account. other's have some sort of bank in their ethnic credit union...4.

If they still refuse, you issue a 1099misc and write “refused” in the TIN/EIN box of the form.  

I'm hoping I can start locally...just like to be face to face with someone but if it doesn't pan out, i'll definitely widen my search. thanks for all the info!