Common fees will include a set-up fee, a leasing fee for each turnover or a lease renewal fee, marking up maintenance, retaining late fees, and more.

Common fees will include a set-up fee, a leasing fee for each turnover or a lease renewal fee, marking up maintenance, retaining late fees, and more.

I get texts/postcards/calls offering me cash for the house a lot, but I don’t want to sell the whole thing outright, I want to retain my ownership and investment and build a property empire with someone who wants to invest - and I’m totally okay with full involvement or silent partnership. 

For you, there is no distinction between one dollar and another, stick to your conventional disclosures but you can omit those specific to the retention of loans from a wholesaler (% sold) and provide your own (I'd say something like 95%, that gets deeper, but you can sell, assign or retain your loan).

They didn't require me to continue using them for any other services.They'll be 100% up to date on state and local landlord/tenant laws, have an attorney on retainer, and they can probably get the job done legally for cheaper than you hiring an attorney hourly.Here are couple good PM's in the Sammamish area that might be worth reaching out to:- PMI Arka- Brink Property Management

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Maybe it’s the commercial lender in me, but I think it’s good business practice to retain, or at the very least have access to, all notices and documents that were given to the tenant.

It sounds like the tenant retains the right to leave at the end of a lease, but the landlord doesn't have the right to end the lease.

You retain ownership and responsibility for the property. 

I would like to retain this house and turn it into a mid-term or long-term furnished rental.I would like to move out of that house and into a bigger primary residence which would likely be a $750-850k purchase price.