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Having Your Cake and Eating, too - May a Landlord Accept Rent Under Section 375?

By Scott Eller, Esq.

A new law went into effect in June that amended a section of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act that allows the tenant to pay rent into the registry of the court to avoid eviction. This has caused confusion among landlords as some apparently believe that this new law allows landlords to accept rent without forfeiting the right to evict.  It doesn’t. The new law is really not new at all.  It amends the procedural details and forms used under a law that has been around for years.  The law t read more

Full post as published by Seattle Landlord-Tenant Attorney on August 31, 2008 (boomark / email).