Review their online financials/annual statements.

It seems you are falling for the alarmist rhetoric you’ve been reading and watching online.

I just looked online and saw that in Seattle for months to month lease the landlord is only required to give 20 day notice.

Cheap rates and modern tech are great, but none of that matters if they can't actually get you to the closing table.

In my experience, most of the online calculators are just taking an educated guess for you.

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

Making matters worse the investor with limited resources cannot recover as easily as the investor who makes the risky investment but does so knowing they can afford to take the L. 

Land Investing Online.

. :-/ I'm waiting for word back from underwriter now as to whether or not this is a real requirement, but of course I'm not allowed to talk directly to anyone that matters or has answers because Chase. 

Even though I myself have a S8 rental, what you hear online is completely false.