@Justin Bautista - some Seattle investors are offloading / 1031-ing their rentals within the city limits because of our regulations and current city council - this election cycle was an opportunity to swing back to a moderate center, but with Kshama Sawant winning another term we as Landlords in Seattle will keep being cast as the bad guys.

In general, any recession we have I think will be minor to moderate at the worst, but most likely between minor and moderate. 

It will be hard for them to move and they may be expecting a moderate increase which you can most likely implement and come out ahead without having to spend any money or at least minimal. 

Up until recently, the laws were reasonable and applied more or less fairly with a slight to moderate bias towards the tenant (the landlord-tenant courts are conducted by magistrates who are ultimately answerable to judges but who, in 99.99% of the cases, are the final word, and have a tendency - if given any sort of excuse - to rule in favor of or at least grant a continuance to the tenant). 

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@Filippo BaldoSomewhere warm, moderate climate & a good market sounds like Florida or Texas

We have 5-6 additional tenants that face a more moderate risk because they have mitigating circumstances (savings, family support, jobs unlikely to be impacted, paid time off, &/or youth and good health).

I'm surprised and disappointed that the moderators are allowing this to occur. 

I had a moderately bad tenant replace himself with a moderately good tenant

The newly elected Housing Court Judge has removed all the moderate magistrates and replaced them with legal aid society lawyers.