In any event, CL is (so I've heard) particularly notorious in their efforts to prevent scraping, compared to almost anyone else really.

You don’t have to go through agents that are, anyway, notorious for missing things in translations and screwing things up.

There have been additional changes but I haven't kept up since abandoning Washington a few years back.The caution is to know the laws of the area that you solicit and buy preforeclosures in.Also, Here's a post I did on Subject To that may helphttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/1060320-using-subject-to-to-get-free-properties-a-quick-guidelinePay time for notorious foreclosure rescue scammerhttps://www.atg.wa.gov/news/ne...It's classified as "Equity Skimming"https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/def...RCW 61.34.030Criminal Penalty.Any person who wilfully engages in a pattern of equity skimming is guilty of a class B felony under RCW 9A.20.021.

The restaurant industry is notoriously difficult, so congrats on creating success there.

Cash buying wholesalers are notorious for paying 20% to even 50% below market value.

But it works somehow, the pay is notoriously low in those firms, and yet there are people knocking on the door wanting to work there accepting low pay for a chance to work with a celebrity. 

We are known to have notoriously difficult and unreasonable building inspectors

Some are notoriously slow while others make it a priority to deliver theirs in plenty of time for their investors to complete their personal tax returns without an extension. 

HCAD appraisals are notoriously inaccurate.

This feels like a gap in the market for a SaaS company to fill...STRs ROI is almost entirely driven by the accuracy of your occupancy rate, which is also notoriously hard to approximate due to vast differences in pricing strategies, management effectiveness, and goals of owners/managers, not all of whom wish to rent a place out 365 days/year, but rather block it off for any number of reasons, even sometimes by errors in their channel manager tools.