The work you mentioned is absolutely negligible and you will open a real pandora's box bringing inspectors into your home and start an endless stream of trouble.

its a great source of information, other posts, books, blogs, podcasts and the Opportunity is endless!

Many believe that in order to sell it that they need to do all of the repairs, show the house over and over again, negotiate endlessly and know the State forms forward and backward. 

You will have endless options to do whatever you want free of the rat race.

It's what got me into BP and the endless knowledge here.

That opens up endless possibilities for you in your mid to late 20's.  

I was thinking that there are endless amounts of properties in S.

They seem to have endless loopholes to provide the value on the property that they want.If all of the objective evidence available says that your property is worth more than the assessed value I'd just let it be.

4) Well, the questions are endless so...

I spent 30+ years in Washington State and have had some involvement with DSHS (although not with housing).My advice to you: 1) Everything the state does takes three times as long as it should and three times as much paperwork as it should.  2)  You will probably have to attend some indoctrination -- I mean class -- either on-line or in person.  3) Your tenant will be endlessly "educated" on their rights and will have free legal representation. 4 ) Just when you think you know the rules and try to play by them, an administrator will come up with an "ETR" -- Exception to Rule.