On February 10, the Seattle City Council took the unprecedented step of banning eviction for “Winter Months”. While there were many...
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An interesting op-ed ran last week in The Lens focused on the risks which Just Cause laws pose to neighbors and other risks, from the perspective of...
Read PostSTATEWIDE MANDATORY LEASE RENEWAL BILL - JUST CAUSE APPLIED TO FIXED TERM LEASES! On Friday, January 24, the House of Representatives will hold...
Read PostOn January 13, RHAWA’s government affairs team began again the critical venture of advocating on behalf of private housing providers at the...
Read PostAs an RHAWA member, you now have exclusive rights to use our new ONDEMAND learning platform. Launched in November, the platform is already populated...
Read PostWhat happens when your tenants default on the rent? You have to file for eviction and lose many months of rent. Unless you get rent default...
Read PostNobody should be without a safe place to stay during the winter – or any time of year. Evictions are a last resort for housing providers...
Read PostFor most small housing providers, the policies passed by our state legislature in 2019 felt like an assault on the very idea of rental property...
Read PostAs a landlord, you always like to imagine a best-case scenario where all of your tenants are completely ideal. You dream of the tenant who always...
Read PostSeattle’s “First in Time” ordinance is coming back and may be in effect by the time you are reading this article. As its title...
Read PostEarlier this morning, the State Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Seattle’s “First in Time” (FIT) ordinance, previously thrown...
Read PostWhat is abundantly clear from the 2019 General election is that the issues the rental industry faced in the City of Seattle prior to the election...
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