Amendments to the Washington Residential Landlord-Tenant Act went into effect yesterday. The new law changes mandatory language in one form of eviction summons.
It is unclear what individual trial level courts will do when inevitably many landlord plaintiffs – acting pro se or with attorney’s not familiar with the new law – come into court having served the old eviction summons.
It is best to simply serve the correct eviction summons in the first place.
Washington has adopted the Connecticut rule which requires landlords to keep common areas in a safe condition regardless whether or not the […]
Our law firm was not involved in the lawsuit described in this article. NOTE : The statute quoted in this article has […]
Swiping legislation that will make major changes to landlord-tenant law will be enacted soon. Some of the key provisions include: notice to […]
Sometimes a tenant owes the landlord for more than just the current month rent. If a tenant offers money short of the […]
