Seattle Requires Landlords To Take Bad Apples . . .

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Seattle has decided you don't control your destiny or your property
1. you don't have a choice in who you can accept for your rental . . . . 
WA Supreme Court approves Seattle law requiring landlords to accept first qualified applicant

The unanimous ruling has broader implications for future property cases.

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Authorities from Homeland Security say the violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) is attempting to gain a stronghold in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

Mexican cartels are suspected of smuggling fentanyl into Washington state.

Not to mention they get paid legal services when you try to evict them

3. Washington becomes first state to guarantee lawyers for low-income tenants during evictions

April 23, 2021 at 1:01 pm Updated April 26, 2021 at 6:57 pm By Sydney Brownstone and Heidi Groover Seattle Times staff reporters

Washington is now the first state in the U.S. to ensure that its poorest tenants have access to a lawyer during eviction proceedings.

That guarantee, known as a “right to counsel” by tenant organizers and civil legal aid advocates, was signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday as part of a larger bill aimed at preventing a flood of eviction cases once local eviction bans expire.

Several cities, including Seattle, have passed right to counsel laws, and seven other states are considering similar measures.

“A right to counsel furthers racial, economic, and social justice while helping to address the extreme imbalance of power between landlords and tenants,” John Pollock, coordinator of the advocacy group National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel, said in an email. “By being the first state to enact a right to counsel, Washington State has showed the 7 states with pending legislation how to get it done, and showed the other 42 states what they need to get done.”

[Russell Brazil]

Why would you turn down the first qualified applicant?

Seems like an inability to think logically about the situation to be honest. You define your criteria. Person applies, if they meet your criteria you accept them. If they dont, you deny them. This is how you should be doing things already.