Maybe start off as a dual-career agent while you learn the business, get a few sales under your belt and see if it's actually something you enjoy, then go from there.

Electrician is telling me that even then, I would have to get the city to provide more voltage to the house in order to make this happen.Do any current S8 landlords use something outside of a central HVAC unit for their places?

Windows should be in good shape, but I wouldn't swap well maintained single pane for dual, ever. 

I learned this lesson early on... we're sitting at the closing and my lawyer asks if there's a security deposit and the dual agent and seller's lawyer shrug their shoulders (hindsight: there was no security deposit). 

It would be a dual agencyBut, what sort of “leverage” are you trying to obtain?

I was thinking about having her be dual agent (if thats possible).

Out of state contracts with a dual agent worry me.

Hi there,I am a dual US/Australian citizen who resides in Australia with my US citizen wife.

So it sounds like the best answer for *me* is to write a dual letter of notice of non-renewal (with wording to allow for default to month-to-month, which is what happens in Washington, from what I am reading in the statutes) along with a 3-month notice to increase rent.That will give them the 90-days required notice on rent increase & hopefully stop any potential sudden "complaints" that would bar me from non-renewing the lease (Washington statutes seem to say if there is an open "complaint" about a rental, you can't evict or non-renew or it's considered retaliation).You know, the more I write, the more I just want to get her out, sell, and buy 3 or 4 cheap properties......I love real estate and rentals, but when it's your OWN home.....ugh.

Regardless of who pays any fees, if a contract is made, usually in those states requiring dual agency, that agent will then need to proceed as a dual agent as the seller is not represented and the agent can only represent the buyer when there is representation for the seller.