But I feel it’s all in context, telling someone you’re an agent as part of your story won’t matter unless they’re just super anti-agent in which case you just have to work a little harder to win them over.

The general consensus from the Property Management community is that Bigger Pockets is anti Property Manager.

Since these ordinances are primarily anti-student housing or anti-boarding house family unit discrimination isn't really the issue.  

The city council is passing anti-STR bill after anti-STR bill.

I realize this is not statewide, but there are so many anti-landlord laws being experimented with lately.

I suspect the gov't regulators that designed the current disclosure forms had an anti-FHA bias, the pre-2015 disclosures didn't cause as much confusion, there's no other typical/standard fee that they make look like it's charged 3 times...

Seattle itself is already rather anti-landlord and getting worse every year. 

The thing I don't like about the tri-state area is the anti-landlord legal system.

Just as many pro-STR proponents attended the legislative hearings as anti-STR folks, so it's a big industry here that individual homeowners are trying to protect.Happy to talk more about all this and answer any questions.Melanie

*In many cases, the people who are the most vocal in the anti-license camp have never had a real estate license themselves, and don't really understand what it entails or what the benefits are, but are quick to tell you how you should run your business.