Any Everett Investors or PMs - questions

[Brian Hughes]

Hi -

BP has a "Tacoma" and "Seattle" forum -  they need an "Everett" or "SnoCo" one...

If you have residential rental properties within jurisdiction of city of Everett, Snohomish County, Washington,   or you are a professional property manager (with staff, office, modern practices, handyperson, etc) operating there,  I have some questions for you.   One specific question:

How does City of Everett do rental licensing?   It looks like they want a regular business license and business registered with State of WA.  Does this mean things like paying city or state B&O tax?   Most cities I have looked at make a special case for rental license in lieu of a business license so this is new to me. 

It looks like City of Everett has their Fire Department do annual inspections of multifamily properties.  Anybody have experience with this and what they are looking for?

Thanks for any insight.