Seattle residential landlords should take note. All residential landlords in Seattle are required to give a tenant at the beginning of a tenancy a landlord-tenant information packet published by the city.
The Seattle information packet until recently contained an error. The former version of the packet incorrectly informed tenants that rent increases of more than 10% require 60-days notice by the landlord. In fact, the law in Seattle requires 60-days notice of a rent increase of 10% or more, not only for rent increases of more than 10%.
Seattle residential landlords should download and use the new packet. At the time of this writing the new landlord-tenant packet is available at
http://www.seattle.gov/DPD/Publications/cam/cam604.pdf
By attorney Travis Scott Eller
