You can use transunion smart move, rent prep, innago, zillow, apartsment.com to run screens on potential tenants.

Although they seem to mover every year or so.Tenant #2.Husband and Wife do not make enough..about 2 times rent.

We were one of the first movers in this space, converting the laundry building into 5,000 square feet of retail (coffee shop, bagel shop, neighborhood brewery), 12 apartments, and an interior parking garage.

I'm down in the Olympia area, but work in Tacoma regularly enough - while I'm far from being an expert, if you ever want to compare notes or need a thought partner, let me know! 

I am not ready at this stage of life/experience level to take on a development project on this property (but definitely someday), but would really like to continue to learn more of how to invest into other properties to hold/rent specifically in the Tacoma, WA- Seattle, WA area.

Salutations @Adam Rae, I just moved back to CO last week, and have been reaching out to as many of the movers and shakers in CO as possible.

To network look up the REI groups in Seattle and Tacoma so you can attend their meetings.

I would move out of our current home in Tacoma, but would keep and rent out as pretty much our first buy-and-hold.

The same mover moved it from downtown Billings in 1972 to where we bought it from 3 years ago. 

For research purposes, I'm looking for Hard Money Lenders in Seattle/Tacoma/Everett area.