Daily Archives: July 1, 2017

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Seattle Landlords Must Provide Voter Registration

A new ordinance requires Seattle landlords to provide voter registration to new tenants. Seattle landlords are already required to provide an informational packet on landlord-tenant law to each new prospective renter (not only those who sign a rental agreement), at each renewal of a tenancy, and annually to all month-to-month tenants. The landlord-tenant law pamphlet can be given electronically only to existing tenants. Voter registration will be added to the landlord-tenant law packet, which is currently fifteen pages.  Washington state law also requires a mold disclosure pamphlet. The voter registration requirement is the latest in a series of new burdens […]