L & I in Philadelphia strictly enforces their code and if your as built is in variance with your submitted plans a torturous procedure requires you to submit modified plans and have them approved before the next necessary inspection.

The ordinance also states that it is illegal for any owner to rent or operate a short-term rental of residential property in unincorporated areas of Forsyth County that violates the ordinance's procedures and regulations.

Have policies and procedures establishing how applications are to be reviewed, and screened that are non-discriminatory, and require an application to be fully completed to be considered.

What Ken is doing right now is his normal operating procedure.

Are there any legal issues/procedures (generally or Washington state specific) to be aware of in soliciting and managing a multiple-offer situation for leases?

The lender will want you to go through a title company so they can get a lenders policy, but the procedure is much more relaxed and sometimes they can send a notary to you.

A good example was a 7 practice dental office that seg'd after the acquisition to gain the advantage of hindsight.

I work all 58 counties of CA and use a series of direct mail educational pieces, public speaking, publicity via press releases and articles written for adjudicated publishers (legal newspapers).The mistakes most real estate related services providers make include:1) Soliciting attorneys while new and inexperienced in their profession2) Soliciting before they have researched, studied and mastered applicable laws and procedures for their area of expertise 3) Like newbie posters who post and go 'poof', I've watched real estate agent, appraisers and specialty lenders (like myself) attend one Bar Assoc meeting then disappear, never to be seen again.

Get an idea of their procedures (delinquency, maintenance, etc).

Then follow the normal move out procedures.