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<p>Which is why housing providers are moving their businesses out of
Washington. Cost and risk is just to high here.</p>
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Yes the court will require them to take these minor steps to
receive payment. It’s part of the cost of doing business.
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<div>If they don’t want to sign the papers, they should cease
renting the property.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Look at RCW 59.18.630,
59.18.650(2)(a), and 59.18.660. Evicting for failure
to pay rent has become much more complicated and they
are likely better off signing forms to help their
tenants get rental assistance. Of course, they should
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<b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] source of income statute
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Dealing with an eviction here; my
client is the landlord. Instead of rent, tenants put
forms in the landlord’s mailbox for them to sign.
They say it will allow landlord to receive rent
money from various charities and other
organizations. My clients are an elderly couple, and
they don’t want to be bothered with signing new
papers and filling out forms every month. They just
want rent money (yeah, yeah, I know… doesn’t every
landlord?). They refused to sign the papers and are
now trying to evict.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">On the one hand, the .255 is
pretty clear that landlord cannot discriminate on
basis of income and has to accept rent from whatever
source offers it. On the other hand, nowhere in the
statute does it say that landlords are required to
sign papers, enter into agreements with third
parties, and generally be filling out forms every
month. At least, that’s the best argument I can come
up with.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Anyone have experience with how
the courts are construing this statute? Do my
clients have a leg to stand on?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Source
of income</span><span style="color:black">—</span><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Landlords
prohibited from certain acts</span><span
style="color:black">—</span><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Violation</span><span
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style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(1)
A landlord may not, based on the source of income of
an otherwise eligible prospective tenant or current
tenant:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(a)
Refuse to lease or rent any real property to a
prospective tenant or current tenant, unless the:
(i) Prospective tenant's or current tenant's source
of income is conditioned on the real property
passing inspection; (ii) written estimate of the
cost of improvements necessary to pass inspection is
more than one thousand five hundred dollars; and
(iii) landlord has not received moneys from the
landlord mitigation program account to make the
improvements;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(b)
Expel a prospective tenant or current tenant from
any real property;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(c)
Make any distinction, discrimination, or restriction
against a prospective tenant or current tenant in
the price, terms, conditions, fees, or privileges
relating to the rental, lease, or occupancy of real
property or in the furnishing of any facilities or
services in connection with the rental, lease, or
occupancy of real property;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(d)
Attempt to discourage the rental or lease of any
real property to a prospective tenant or current
tenant;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(e)
Assist, induce, incite, or coerce another person to
commit an act or engage in a practice that violates
this section;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(f)
Coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any
person in the exercise or enjoyment of, or on
account of the person having exercised or enjoyed or
having aided or encouraged any other person in the
exercise or enjoyment of, any right granted or
protected under this section;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(g)
Represent to a person that a dwelling unit is not
available for inspection or rental when the dwelling
unit in fact is available for inspection or rental;
or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(h)
Otherwise make unavailable or deny a dwelling unit
to a prospective tenant or current tenant that, but
for his or her source of income, would be eligible
to rent real property.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(2)
A landlord may not publish, circulate, issue, or
display, or cause to be published, circulated,
issued, or displayed, any communication, notice,
advertisement, or sign of any kind relating to the
rental or lease of real property that indicates a
preference, limitation, or requirement based on any
source of income.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(3)
If a landlord requires that a prospective tenant or
current tenant have a certain threshold level of
income, any source of income in the form of a rent
voucher or subsidy must be subtracted from the total
of the monthly rent prior to calculating if the
income criteria have been met.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(4)
A person in violation of this section shall be held
liable in a civil action up to four and one-half
times the monthly rent of the real property at
issue, as well as court costs and reasonable
attorneys' fees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">(5)
As used in this section, "source of income" includes
benefits or subsidy programs including housing
assistance, public assistance, emergency rental
assistance, veterans benefits, social security,
supplemental security income or other retirement
programs, and other programs administered by any
federal, state, local, or nonprofit entity. "Source
of income" does not include income derived in an
illegal manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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