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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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Jan
27
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...
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Jan
24
STATEWIDE MANDATORY LEASE RENEWAL BILL - JUST CAUSE APPLIED TO FIXED TERM LEASES! On Friday, January 24, the House of Representatives will hold...
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Jan
13
On January 13, RHAWA’s government affairs team began again the critical venture of advocating on behalf of private housing providers at the...
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Jan
9
As an RHAWA member, you now have exclusive rights to use our new ONDEMAND learning platform. Launched in November, the platform is already populated...
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Jan
6
What 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...
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Jan
3
Nobody should be without a safe place to stay during the winter – or any time of year. Evictions are a last resort for housing providers...
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Dec
17
For most small housing providers, the policies passed by our state legislature in 2019 felt like an assault on the very idea of rental property...
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Dec
12
As 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...
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Nov
19
Seattle’s “First in Time” ordinance is coming back and may be in effect by the time you are reading this article. As its title...
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Nov
14
Earlier this morning, the State Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Seattle’s “First in Time” (FIT) ordinance, previously thrown...
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Nov
14
What 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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