[WSBAPT] Unlawful Detainer Notice Requirements

[Thomas E. Gates]

I have always applied a 20 day notice before the end of the month (no later than the 10th or 11th).  The tenant had until the end of the month to vacate.

I am not aware of a 30 day notice requirement.

Tom

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> On Nov 2, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Jim Doran <jim at doranlegal.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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