The controversial Seattle First in Time law was recently upheld by the Washington Supreme Court. Under the First in Time law, Seattle landlords seeking to fill vacant residential tenancies must provide notice of their rental criteria, screen applications in chronological order, and offer the tenancy to the first qualified applicant, subject to certain exceptions. Notice of rental criteria. The landlord must first “provide notice to a prospective occupant” of “the criteria the owner will use to screen prospective occupants and the minimum threshold for each criterion,” as well as “all information, documentation, and other submissions necessary for the owner to […]
Monthly Archives: November 2019
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Washington landlords can terminate a month-to-month tenancy with a notice to the tenant requiring the tenant to vacate at the end of a month, served at least twenty days in advance. No notice is required at the end of a fixed-term lease unless the lease contract terms require notice or automatically trigger a month-to-month tenancy at the end of the lease term. This is the law even in Seattle, where a residential landlord is required to have just cause to end any tenancy. Tacoma has a different set of rules under laws enacted in 2019. Landlords must give sixty days […]