[WSBAPT] Unlawful Detainer Notice Requirements

[Jim Doran]

Here is one for you unlawful detainer attorneys.

When there is a month to month tenancy I have always thought that RCW
59.18.200 (1) states that 20 days notice for the termination of a tenancy
must be given.  My client, the landlord, was in a month to month tenancy
with a tenant who had moved two days before the first of July and the
tenancy was considered from the first of the month to the first of the
month.  We gave the 20 Day notice of termination of tenancy on October 1st
giving the tenant until midnight on October 20th to move out.  That is 20
days notice.

I am being harangued by an attorney who says we had to give 30 days
notice.  He quotes Froberg v. Gordon 124 Wn. 2d 732 (1994) and Leda v.
Whisnand, 150 Wn. App. 69 (2009) a holding that we have to give 30 days
notice.  I do not see it.

What am I missing????

Jim Doran
James R. Doran
Attorney at Law
100 E. Pine Street -  Suite 205
Bellingham, WA 98225
(360)393-9506
jim at doranlegal.com
www.doranlegal.com
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