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Fair Tenant Screening & How To Comply
Please click link for full PDF Flyer: http://www.orcainfo-com.com/uploads/AprilNARPMflyer.pdf Rebekah Near , CEO of Orca Information, has been providing screening services for 26 years and brings a wealth of industry experience and clarity to this complicated topic. Participants will learn: · How Washington State assists tenants using the Fair Tenant Screening Act · How a Tenant […]
Tenant Screening Newsletter, February 2018
URGENT – SEATTLE LANDLORDS! More New and Required Wording For Your Rental Applications! On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 Seattle Office Of Civil Rights Enforcer/Attorney, Michael Chin gave Tenant Screening companies instruction on compliance to FAIR CHANCE HOUSING. Many screening companies from the United States participated. Screening companies were given required wording for Rental Applications. Many Orca Information […]
Landlords Sued!! Crimes Committed on Property
A tenant sued a landlord for $1 million because she was raped by a man who broke into her apartment. She contended the landlord should have warned her the neighborhood was high-crime. He was threatened with a second lawsuit because a prospective tenant was raped by a man who wandered in off the street while she was […]
How a 10-Day Notice Works
A 10-day notice is a notice to the tenant to comply with some requirement of the rental agreement or rules and regulations. The notice must state three things: first, the section of the lease, rules and regulations, or statute that the tenant has violated (i.e. payment of utilities or quiet enjoyment for the other tenants); […]