My husband and I are also buy and hold investors focused on single family and smaller multi-family units, with an emphasis on King County. 

quoted from Larken Rose "Message to the Voting Cattle" emphasis added.

As real estate investing is somewhat personal and relative to the individual, I put heavy emphasis on working with a reputable property management firm, and sometimes cost comes along with that.In the end though, I think that I analyzed enough properties for myself to be sure of the market in terms of whether I wanted to invest there.

(Emphasis added) WHEREFORE, in view of the foregoing, the instant petition is GRANTED.

During the walk through you can bring up parts of the lease that you feel need emphasis.

Ive always found humor in how much emphasis people put on titles.  

Hire on as a unlicensed assistant for top producing agent. ( get paid to learn)Emboldened for emphasis.

good luck, keep posting but most of all keep sharing, this is an optimal dilemma of epic proportion, that being said i tend to agree with just about everything mrs. nourse so elegantly laid out, it a tough issue no matter how you look at it, but at the end of the day you are in business to make a profit, and hopefully give away a portion to charity, and emphasis on just that "charity!"

The RentPrep reports are different than Smartmove or others because we put more emphasis on the data that actually relates to a renter.

@Thomas S.Here is the appropriate section of New York's Landlord/Tenant Law (emphasis mine):MONTH-TO-MONTH TENANTSTenants who do not have leases and pay rent on a monthly basis are called “month-to-month” tenants.