First-in-time screening, fee caps, notice requirements, and RRIO mean Seattle self-management is paperwork discipline. Owners who like checklists do fine; owners who improvise accumulate exposure with rights-aware tenants.
Local owners of a door or two with compliant lease packets, written screening criteria applied in order, and a moisture-literate vendor bench. ADU/DADU landlords living on-site are natural fits.
Remote owners, anyone uncomfortable with ordinance homework, and Eastside-versus-city portfolio owners juggling different rulebooks (Seattle's ordinances stop at the city line; Bellevue runs lighter). Managers also absorb the winter-eviction-limit calendar planning.
Self-manage the building you live in; delegate the one across the lake. Common and sensible here.
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