NOTE: This information in this article has been superseded by subsequent legislation. See New Laws Protect Tenants When Landlord is Foreclosed An eviction notice is required for most evictions in Washington. However, case law establishes that such a notice is not required to evict someone after foreclosure. Twenty days after foreclosure the successful bidder at the trustee’s sale has an immediate right to possession. If after twenty days from the trustee’s sale the previous owner is still in possession of the property the new owner must bring an eviction action to exercise the right to possession. However, no eviction […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
In Seattle a residential tenant may only be evicted for “just cause”. The just causes are enumerated in a city ordinance. A landlord may evict a tenant in a residential tenancy in Seattle for only those causes enumerated. A month-to-month tenant is essentially a tenant in perpetuity.
On June 8, 2006 I wrote in an article posted on this site about the new summons for residential unlawful detainer actions in Washington. In that article I wrote: Amendments to the Washington Residential Landlord-Tenant Act went into effect yesterday….It is unclear what…courts will do when inevitably many landlord plaintiffs – acting pro se or with attorneys not familiar with the new law – come into court having served the old eviction summons. A decision published last month by Division I of the Washington Court of Appeals held that a landlord had wrongfully evicted a tenant because the landlord’s attorney […]