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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Two questions for the fair housing/landlord tenant attorneys.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What are the King County/City of Seattle practitioners experience with their ordinance that residential landlords must accept section 8 vouchers and other similar forms of income? The city of Spokane (wanting to be all things Seattle) enacted the same ordinance effective July 1 of this year. Being a residential landlord myself and also representing lots of landlords I'm very familiar with the process and requirements for the landlord to have to bring the property up to section 8/HUD standards. How viable of a defense is it if the landlord goes purely to month-to-month rental agreement because section 8 vouchers like programs require a year term (or 90 days at a minimum). Same applies with a landlord who responds to an applicant that they would not be bringing the property up to section 8 housing standards. For example, removing peeling paint and repainting, which is not a habitability issue, but creates issue as far as section 8 standards.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What is your experience with the VA VASH vouchers and enforcement by the attorney general's office? I came across a recent consent decree against a large Spokane property management company and simultaneously one of my residential landlords also got a demand letter from the attorney general office for the same claim. I'm aware of the vouchers but did not understand them as something that a residential landlord had to accept (or violate the law per the AG) except as required by a local municipality. What say you?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><img width="86" height="130" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D2C8BA.1AB97640" align="left" hspace="12"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Robert R. Rowley</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> | Attorney at Law</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">7 S. Howard St, Suite 218</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Spokane, WA 99201</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Telephone: (509) 252-5074</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mobile: (509) 994-1143</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Facsimile: (509) 928-3084</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Email: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="mailto:rob@rowleylegal.com"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">rob@rowleylegal.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Web Site: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.rowleylegal.com/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">www.rowleylegal.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Practice concentrated on business, real estate and general legal matters in Washington and Idaho.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rowleylegal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="24" height="24" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.gif@01D2C8B7.BF0916E0"></span></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-rowley/11/172/b20"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="24" height="24" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image004.gif@01D2C8B7.BF0916E0"></span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/ROBERTRROWLEY"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="24" height="24" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image005.gif@01D2C8B7.BF0916E0"></span></a><a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/robert-r-rowley-spokane"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="43" height="21" id="Picture_x0020_5" src="cid:image007.jpg@01D2C8BA.1AB97640"></span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NOTICE: The contents of this message and any attachments may be protected by the attorney-client privilege, work product doctrine or other applicable protections. 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