I hope people come together and sue the city for this law. 

Seattle is one of the 21 cities where renters represents at least half the total population living in households.

They could vote to live for free for the rest of their lives if they wanted to.

Seattle landlords--your customers are exercising their political power (or it's being exercised for them by those in power for their own purposes).

The people in Seattle's government have made it into an "Illegal" sanctuary city set on harboring have-nots from other countries.

When the Have-nots outnumber the Haves things like this happen.

Then when things like this happen and the area's turn into slums due to inadequate cash flow, they will further plague landlords calling them slumlords and cracking down on them.

This just seems like part of a much bigger political issue (and possibly a way to make their sanctuary city more attractive to who they want to draw there to live). Competition for more residents like Dallas and Austin do with new jobs. 

Just my 2 cents.

Just wait...rent control is right around the corner.

Meanwhile, in OK we do evictions in 30 days for $300. 

Motion to sell Seattle to Canada. Bunch of clowns up there. 

Cook County, IL is similar but doesn't sound as blatant. From what my attorneys have told me, the sheriff's office is prevented from doing lockouts when the outside temperature drops to a certain level. You effectively can't get a lockout until the spring. We already prefer to offer former occupants cash for keys but our attorneys said that it's essential during the winter.

For us, we actually prefer to have a non-paying occupant just in the winter months because it reduces the risk of a burst pipes incident in a vacant home. We can time the move out date with the beginning of spring.

Originally posted by @Russ B. :

Next, they'll be wondering why you need perfect credit to get in anywhere.. 

Next, Seattle moves to ban credit checks. Councilmember Kshama Sawant states that people who fail to pay their bills have a disproportionately harder time finding landlords willing to rent to them. Under the new law, the first person who calls 'dibs' is entitled to the place. However, if the first person to calls dibs is a white male, the landlords is allowed to extend the dibs calling process until a more deserving person, such as a woman or person of color can call dibs.

/s

@Patrick McGrath Illinois is the same. While I understand that you don’t want to literally throw someone out into the cold, there are certainly people who will take advantage of it.

Originally posted by @Dennis M. :

Why anyone would run rentals in such immunity states boggles the mind ! Couldn’t be dumber they deserve what they get for voting in insane liberal morons - did I say that out loud ?

it reminds me when i foreclosed on a few buy and hold investors in Detroit and ended up owning rentals there.. same thing but with the utls.. the city wont shut off heat or water in the winter or just about anytime.. and those become liens on your property. tenants know this and simply never pay their utls..  

Originally posted by @Dennis M. :

Why anyone would run rentals in such immunity states boggles the mind ! Couldn’t be dumber they deserve what they get for voting in insane liberal morons - did I say that out loud ?

 It shouldn't boggle the mind. Owning rentals in high demand locations of the high demand metros is the fastest and easiest path to becoming a multimillionaire.  Sure, you got to put up with some stuff you dont want to, but when your property values go up a quarter of a million dollars every 5 years, you learn to deal with it.