Mold questions follow the first heavy rain every year, and the law here is narrower than most people assume on both sides. Washington does not require a landlord to certify a unit is mold-free, and it does not put a codified duty on tenants to prevent mold. What it actually
A Washington landlord has to keep a rental adequately heated, and the law gives a specific, short deadline once something breaks. The duty and the deadline are both in the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act, and both sides tend to know roughly what they are without knowing exactly what they say. Here
Washington landlords owe tenants a written fire safety notice, and most do not know it exists. It sits in subsection (12) of RCW 59.18.060, the statute listing landlord duties, several paragraphs below the things everyone knows about. It costs nothing to comply with and it is one of the easiest
Two of the most common questions we get, from both sides of a lease, are what a landlord can charge for a pet and whether an emotional support animal counts. The answers depend on something most articles skip entirely: which side of the Olympia city line the property sits on.
Every Washington lease signed from January 1, 2027 has to carry a flood disclosure. Substitute Senate Bill 6237, Chapter 234 of the 2026 laws, was signed on March 27, 2026 and adds a new subsection (13) to RCW 59.18.060, the statute that lists what a landlord must do. The bill
Smoke reached Thurston County again this month. On August 3, 2026 smoke from eastern Washington fires pushed into the Puget Sound lowlands, and by August 4 the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency reported that a National Weather Service air quality alert covering Thurston County had been extended to Mason and
