Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions about how we can go about reaching the proper individual to entertain a CA$H offer for the property AS IS but PRIOR to it going on the market?? 

@David KrulacWould you suggest if you are a young individual to acquire as many four units as possible with 5% conventional down and living in them?

So if your tenant skips on the Water, trash, or sewer bill, then the City would be authorized by statute to collect it from you, the Landlord(the property owner).

@Charles Worth  any mortgage counts on each individual property.

Print out applications and get authorization from the potential tenant for a credit, criminal, identity and housing court check. 

It looks like a novice group of one or two individuals.

Legally speaking; A service animal means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.

You need to look at each situation individually and analyze it like you would any other financial transaction.

(C) "Vendor" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, trust, or any other group of individuals however organized making a sale of property by means of a land installment contract.

Soliciting JV relationships comes under SEC authority, basically the same type of exemptions apply, when you start advertising for joint ventures you're crossing the line.If you solicit business and the deal goes south, you can lose your money due to your non-compliance.Experience in RE is not experience in finance!