Lol.Additionally, as a landlord, since you incurred a fee, technically you can send them to colelctions for the 35 dollar bounced check fee, which will do damage to their credit, and stay on their report for 7 years.Add an additional collectiosn on their for the collections agency in addition to your own, who is legally allowed to do so (most states allow for original debtor + 1 collection agency to report on a single debt), this makes it substantially more damaging to their credit, as each collections deals at least 20-80 points a piece (diminishing returns).Add a judgement for rent on top of that, as well as a collection set for the rents itself, and a separate set for the eviction costs (because those are separate from the actual rents), and you have pretty much a death kneel to their credit for upwards of 7 years, 10 if they end of fighting or disputing anything after the fact. 

However, it has diminished the look of the property, and should I decide to sell it as is, the value. 

Thus, diminishing margins. 

That way of think has its law of diminishing returns now that I'm being accustomed to never meeting unrealistic goals.

But as one gets worse (CA) and one gets better (Great Lakes) that gap will diminish. 

The law of diminishing returns still applies. 

And, yes, if you're LTV is hurt your exit (i.e. ability to sell the property) options will diminish.  

I think Seattle's own analysis on these changes said that they expected a few hundred to a thousand additional units per year to be developed as a result of these changes,   so if seattle has about ~150K single family homes,  thats not a dramatic rate of change.Also,   Seattle's anti-landlord renter protection ordinances are going to diminish interest in this,  especially if our more aggressively / unapologetically socialist council members get their way and achieve some sort of rent control.   

We're all grown ups here and know the money is coming from the buyer.In the age of the internet - the value of the real estate agent/broker has diminished tremendously.

But it is doubtful that their paperwork would diminish and they would rent month to month.