City of Seattle puts on its own 'renting in seattle' trainings monthly - very worthwhile if considering being a landlord in city:  https://www.seattle.gov/rentinginseattle and https://www.seattle.gov/rentinginseattle/news-and-eventsFor a viewpoint from the other side,  but aside from the (unsurpisingly) tenant-advocacy centric point of view pretty factual when it comes to actually describing landlord tenant law is the tenants union website:  https://tenantsunion.org - this is where your tenants would likely go at some point or other if they are having a contract dispute with you so worth looking at.Other municipalities and counties have their own patchwork of landlord tenant rules on top of statewide RLTA - best thing to do is go to the city/county website typically cityname.gov and look for landlord/tenant ordinances.   

A simple solution would have been for the landlord to offer a move out inspection in order to prevent this from happening.I'd suggest that you contact a local tenant advocacy organization to get legal counsel.Best of luck!

Did his advocacy include losing money while waiting to capture the appreciation or getting to a point of positive cash flow?

They have an obligation of customer care and transparency and advocacy on our behalf when the contractor, regardless of who's contractor it is, breached a contract.I'm hoping others can provide strategies, resources, anecdotes, other avenues of recourse that could shed some light on this horrific situation. 

Actually it might not be a bad idea to find the STR advocacy group most local to the area or state(s) where you intent to operate.

Hi Taylor,Here are some sites and blogs that might be useful:Short Term Rental Advocacy Center: They have a lot of current information on short term rental regulations.AVROA: The American Vacation Rental Owners' AssociationRentals United blog: Rentals United is a channel manager, but they have a great blog on managing your vacation rental.Cottage Bloggerrented. blog: Lots of resources for homeowners and property managers on how to best manage properties.

There aren't any rules limiting use of eviction history other than the rules around credit reporting limiting that information to 7 years back afaik and they don't limit use of credit score,   though our lefty leadership and all the rental advocacy/SJ groups have all indicated interest in such things.   

Point me in the right direction in terms of non-profit orgs or advocacy groups that may be helpful.

However, there is recent precedent in one city (Cleveland Heights) where a Landlord succeeded in representing his own LLC and it was not considered the unauthorized practice of law since he did not "engage in cross-examination, argument, or other acts of advocacy" (Cleveland Bar Association vs.

When I learned about REIAs, I thought that their roles were to be advocacy organizations as well as learning groups.