Forget raising rent in Wa State for a good while

[Jay C.]

With the eviction moratorium now extended to summer rents or any talking about rents to your tenants is illegal. As well they are working on laws to make it even worse.

SB 5139 Rent Control - Rental Housing Association of Washington (rhawa.org)

Bill Summary

• Prohibits a housing provider from increasing rent or other charges for the first 6 months after the end of the Governor’s emergency eviction ban under 59.18.
• After the first 6 months expire, housing providers are then limited to only increasing rent by 3% over the previous year’s consumer price index, for a subsequent six months, based on the rental rate as it was on March 1, 2020. .