I find it interesting everyone spoke of inspections in the light of a tenant doing something 'wrong' or harmful to the property, not as a way to do preventive maintenance on power plants, hvac, and appliances.

I also find that (not labeling every smoker, just in general) when someone has a bad habit like that which is knowingly harming themselves, they won't take as good care of my apartment either and often comes along with other bad life habits.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

You may categorize my opinion as shallow or imperfect, however, I've witnessed people getting selected for jobs and opportunities constantly based on how they dress and how professionally they act in the work place.  

For example, a horse or a llama may be rejected from a small studio apartment.Second – if the building has 4 units or less and the landlord lives in one of the buildings.Third – it is a single-family house that was rented without a realtor and the owner owns less than 3 single family homes.Fourth – if the animal in the unit brings an undue financial hardship to the landlord.Fifth – if the animal causes damages or harm to others in the building."

What if the dwelling is harming the land, disrupting it in any way, or being destroyed in any way?

In my opinion, there is no harm to reach out to anyone and everyone.

As a cash buyer you should certainly want title insurance in case of any past unknown fraud by the seller or prior owners that may come forward in the future to harm your ownership position.

It's sad because if you do an ounce of research you can immediately see that Rent control does more harm to communities than good.Instead of new quality affordable housing that is newer and nicer buildings, we get slums, with landlords having no incentive to keep up the property but just get minimal rent and have trash filled, broken windows, bad tenants, druggies etc who just pay the minimal amount of rent.

Be careful you don’t do more harm than good.