Industries
Rental and manufactured housing
Rent regulation, the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, notice and eviction procedure, and the tax treatment of rental property: the issues that decide whether housing gets built and held in Washington.
No sector in Washington has seen more legislative activity in the last decade. Since 2019 the Legislature has introduced 71 bills touching the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act alone, and 19 of them reached the Governor's desk. If you provide housing in this state, you are being legislated at every year.
Rent regulation
We have opposed rent control in every form it has taken, statewide caps, local preemption repeal, rent-control-lite, and manufactured home park caps. We killed six separate vehicles in the 2023 session alone.
Notice and process reform
HB 2664 and HB 2452, signed in June 2026, removed the certified mail requirement for unlawful detainer notices and modernized service of rent-increase notices statewide.
The Residential Landlord-Tenant Act
We worked the 2019 rewrite (SB 5600) and have been in every RLTA negotiation since, including mandatory credit reporting and deposit legislation.
Manufactured housing
Relocation assistance, community sale timelines, and park closure notice, including SB 5183 and the 2023 community purchase framework.
Tax and cost
REET increases, taxes on rent, capital gains extension to real estate, and property tax growth limits.
Selected results
What we have done in this sector
- HB 2664 & HB 2452 2026 Certified mail repeal and rent-increase notice reform
- HB 2114 / SB 5961 2024 Statewide rent control: defeated
- HB 1388, HB 1389, SB 5697, HB 1124 2023 Four rent control vehicles: defeated
- SB 5600 2019 Residential Landlord-Tenant Act rewrite
Who we represent here
Clients
- Rental Housing Association of Washington (RHA)
- Washington Landlord Association (WLA)
- Manufactured Housing Communities of Washington (MHCW)
- Washington Business Properties Association (WBPA)
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