[WSBARP] LL/T Law

Thu Jun 23 05:42:47 PDT 2022

I think that ship may have sailed with the state-wide pandemic 
restrictions.  Only anecdotal, but I've been seeing a ton of former 
rental houses (and condos) on the market for sale.  If I'm right that 
the eviction moratorium and local regulations have larger affect on the 
smaller landlord than the larger landlord, it will be much more 
difficult and expensive to rent a single family house going forward.  
And just checking now, I was able to convince a non-client to sell their 
house in Seattle rather than become a landlord.  To me it was almost a 
no-brainer.  Be subject to an ever increasing number of absurd 
regulations (particularly in Seattle) and risk the possibility of being 
unable to collect rent for a pandemic even if your tenant has in no way 
been affected by the pandemic, or get $500,000 of gain tax free.  In the 
past I've not found the tax free draw to be enough for people to change 
their rental plans.

Not that I'm happy about the results on tenants. I think people should 
be able to have the choice of being able to raise their family in a 
house without needing to buy a house. I wish politicians were smart 
enough to think about the secondary effects of their policies because 
all too frequently they harm the groups they try to help.

Kary L. Krismer
206 723-2148

On 6/22/2022 10:13 PM, K. Garl Long wrote:
>
> Excellent way to discourage people from providing housing, increase 
> risk, and raise rents.
>
> K. Garl Long
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> On 6/22/22 18:10, Kaitlyn Jackson wrote:
>> For the moment, yes that is true at the state level. But each city is 
>> adopting their own restrictions/limitations (last night the councils 
>> of Redmond, Issaquah, and Newcastle met to consider adopting their 
>> own). Before the end of this year, we are on schedule to have about 
>> 30 different sets of landlord/tenant laws state-wide. Unless the 
>> State decides to pass preemption in this area, we are on our way to 
>> over 300 different sets statewide if every city enacts their own 
>> (there are 281 cities) and then we have 39 different counties and 
>> some counties are adding to the deck as well. So check the city and 
>> county laws as well. City councils can (and do) effectively adopt the 
>> laws almost over night and there's often not a lot of notice.
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>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 2:34 PM Paul Neumiller 
>> <pneumiller at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>     People, RCW 59.18.140 requires a 60 day notice for a LL to
>>     increase the rent (for a month-to-month lease.)  Is there any
>>     restriction to the rent increase statewide (that is, I’m in
>>     Island County, not King County).  I’m not finding a dollar or
>>     percentage restriction at all.  So, if the LL does a survey and
>>     learns LL’s rent is $1,000 under market, there is nothing to
>>     prevent LL from increasing the rent by a $1,000?  Thanks.
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