As you can read below, the steps involved in complying with the Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance are very onerous. You can still use a day notice to terminate the tenancy for a narrow set of reasons, including the following:.
There are some narrow exceptions to this rule, including government-owned units, school-owned units, mobile homes, and rental units that will be converted to condominiums from this rule. The side-effect of this ordinance is that it makes it far costlier and more inefficient for a landlord to kick out a current tenant, renovate the unit, and re-rent it at top-of-the-market prices.
Once you have received your tenant relocation license, you must supply each effected tenant with a tenant relocation information packet. Tenants can then apply for relocation assistance based on their income.
How does this add up? After the landlord has paid his or her share of the tenant relocation assistance if any , he must wait at least ten days before issuing a day notice to vacate per SMC But Seattle officials are one step ahead. Understanding the answer to this question requires come background information about how laws work in the United States.
The federal constitution and certain other federal statutes offer a baseline set of laws that operate as a common legal foundation for every state in the country.
Likewise, county laws build on state laws, and city laws build on county laws. Each level of government is generally free to add more laws on top of the foundational laws below it, but it cannot contradict or undermine those foundational laws. Your occupancy of a unit depends on being employed on the property and your employment is terminated. This would typically apply to property managers who live on site.
Your landlord rents a portion of their own home or an accessory dwelling unit to their own home and no longer wishes to share with you. Your landlord wants to substantially remodel your unit or the building where you live displacing you permanently.
This requires your landlord to apply to the City for a relocation license which is approximately a 6-month process. The license requirements include giving you an information packet and paying you relocation assistance if your income is at or below 50 percent of the median income for King County. For more details, read the Tenant Relocation Assistance webpage. Your landlord wants to demolish the property where you live or change the use to non-residential.
This requires a relocation license the same as displacement from a substantial remodel. See above. Your landlord wants to convert your unit to a condo or a co-op. Your landlord receives a notice of violation for housing standards in a permitted accessory dwelling unit and wants to discontinue renting it.
Thoreson Homes, LLC v. Prudhon the owners sold their Seattle home. The house was rented out to a tenant. The purchase and sale agreement required the owners to serve a day notice on the tenant, which the owners did. The tenant refused to vacate, arguing that the day notice of intent to sell was not valid. The new owner sought to evict the tenant. The Court of Appeals reversed this holding, however, and awarded attorney fees and costs to the tenant in an amount to be determined.
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