King county is not a cheap place to operate.

Also, always be careful with very long-term residents that are far below market rent, it's very possible there are issues they live with and don't say anything about because they've been there so long and they know their rent is cheap.

You do not want to open the cheap $hit.Good luck

If a company is unwilling to provide this information it would immediately throw a flag for me and create distrust. 

I spent a year in Fort Sill, and I don't think I could name one redeeming quality about Lawton other than houses are cheap.

When buy in some cheap Ohio area for example theres lots of risk with tenant issues but if you buy in a class A area for example north side chicago the deals run effortlessly.

I was choosing to have the sewer fixed and throwing a bone to the seller to take on the very needed, and extensive tuck pointing SOW myself to help the deal move along.

In my experience like other things you get what you pay for. if you go with the companies that are charging super cheap rates - 5%, $100/month or something like that they don't have enough income to sustain a supportive team to actually help you manage your home. 10% is the going rate it seems in the city and that is where the better companies tend to exist. 

The cheapest...often turns out not being just that - cheap. 

I was thinking of throwing in (yet another) tool; Breezeway.It supposedly takes all info from Hospitable and allows you to communicate with tenants, but also all vendors and streamline tasks like cleaners, maintenance etc from one platform.