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Last Exit Before Toll ? Seattle Just Cause and the end of a Residential Lease Term

By Scott Eller, Esq.

In Seattle a residential tenant may only be evicted for ?just cause?.  The just causes are enumerated in a city  ordinance.  A landlord may evict a tenant in a residential tenancy in Seattle for only those causes enumerated.  A month-to-month tenant is essentially a tenant in perpetuity. A decision by the Washington Court of Appeals in 2000 held that this does [...]

Full post as published by Seattle Landlord-Tenant Attorney on September 01, 2007 (boomark / email).