All Forum Posts by: Jack B.

Right after moving in, they claim a single element on the kitchen stove being on is causing a bulb to burn out in a bedroom but magically not trip a breaker. (I lived in this house for 4 years including just a few months ago and had 3 tenants in it years ago, zero issues or complaints) I asked them when it happened, and he said a week ago, she said a few days ago. They both responded over each other at the same time and looked at each other all of a sudden in a way that was very suspicious, then he changed his story to match hers. I asked when did they happen, he said last Wednesday, she looked at him and she said a few days ago again. I asked why they didn't contact me when it happened and she said it was the weekend and we didn't want to bother you. Mind you he said it happened a week ago on a Wednesday and the only reason she claimed it happened on a weekend after saying "a few days ago" was because I asked her why they waited so long to contact me. Still doesn't explain why they waited so long after the weekend to contact me, assuming it ever really happened on the weekend, which I doubt considering their stories don't match.

On top of this the "blue room" she claimed a lamp burned out in was actually the front room not the teal back room. It was her moms room. Her mom has an old lamp with an incandescent bulb and multiple other devices including a cpap machine plugged into the same power strip, an old power strip. I also found it suspicious that when I turned the lamp on it worked. I asked her if she replaced the bulb she said she doesn't know. I asked her how that could be, she told me the bulb burned out, yet now it is working. How would you not know that it was not changed. If what you said was true, clearly it would have been replaced. To top it off, the bulb was old and dusty and not a new bulb...
Moreover she told me via text it was the front right element that alone when turned on caused multiple lights to burn out in the house. She also claimed their router and TV in the bedroom in the very back of the house shut off when it happened. Mind you, I explained to them they are on different circuits than the kitchen, and they even admitted the breaker never tripped. I explained to them their story seems extremely suspicious to me, almost like scammers, as their story changes, they miss details and they waited a week to contact me. The most interesting thing is all the bulbs in the kitchen are the same bulbs I had put in and they said none of those bulbs burned out during the "surge". Originally their story was the multiple bulbs in the house burned out, but it later changed to just the lamp in her moms bedroom, after I pointed out that all the bulbs in the house are still the ones I put in...

Somehow her moms lamp in the other room burned out from a single stove element being on?? I turned on all the stove elements, four of them, and the oven, as well as the dryer on high heat. With all of them running at the same time and most of the lights in the house on, nothing burned out, not a single abnormality, no "surges". I explained this all to them, after running the appliances for about an hour, and explained that I don't understand how their story is even plausible, it's not only technically impossible due to the different circuits the other areas that "issues" occurred in, but they said themselves the breaker never tripped. The "surge" burned out multiple lights allegedly but then that changed to one, but they can't remember if they changed the bulb even though the lamp is now working...and the lamp is on a different circuit than the kitchen and all the kitchen lights were fine....

 On top of that, during my more than an hour at the house, I observed zero electrical issues, running ALL stove tops and the oven as well as the dryer and multiple lights at the same time. The only thing I did see in her moms room was approximately 4 appliances including the lamp in question with an old incandescent bulb plugged into a single old power strip, along with a cpap machine, everything in the house including their TV, lamp and router appeared to be working fine even while running all the stove tops and oven and dryer. The lady couldn't even correctly identify and incandescent vs LED vs fluorescent bulb...

These people are really starting to sound like scammers who are setting me up for something....

 I hear ya, but if you read the paragraph I posted, it is now ILLEGAL to serve ANY 10 day notice to comply.

Governor Dummy has even made it illegal to even serve a 10 day notice to comply in WA apparently. I have neighbors who are complaining about loud music, overgrown yard and more. So I go to see the house condition after 6 months of them living there and there are holes in the walls, the yard has never been mowed and the carpet looks like it was used as a plate in the dinning room (where there is no dinning table)....

Still able to send a 10 day notice or just tell them to fix and I'll be back in 2 weeks to inspect without calling it a notice to comply? Seems like as long as it's not a notice to comply it should be fine. I might just send a notice that I plan on selling or occupying it myself...selling it and investing in a landlord friendly state sounds REALLY good right about now. I do have another vacancy right now to deal with though so...

Governor Dummy's order:

Landlords, property owners, and property managers are prohibited from serving or
enforcing, or threatening to serve or enforce, any notice requiring a resident to vacate any
dwelling or parcel of land occupied as a dwelling, including but not limited to an eviction
notice, notice to pay or vacate, notice of unlawful detainer, notice of termination of
rental, or notice to comply or vacate. This prohibition applies to tenancies or other
housing arrangements that have expired or that will expire during the effective period of
this Proclamation. This prohibition applies unless the landlord, property owner, or
property manager (a) attaches an affidavit attesting that the action is necessary to respond
to a significant and immediate risk to the health, safety, or property of others created by
the resident; or (b) provides at least 60 days’ written notice of intent to (i) personally
occupy the premises as a primary residence, or (ii) sell the property.

Ummmmmm...that article is short on facts, the legal challenge against Inslee was dismissed in District court...in fact all three challenges have been dismissed. Educate yourself before YOU are led to believe nonsense that you read online...

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/state/article244485917.html

You're telling people to please read and stop being sheep, blindly believing a random article with no facts or evidence that turns out to not be true. Hillarious.... How did he not enforce the proclamations when his goon, the AG, sued a property manager for 350K and won due to eviction notices? https://www.usnews.com/news/be...

Had you bothered to do a quick google search of 10 seconds you would have heard there was no such victory against Inslee. Shake my head...

 So far BP has responded with two people, one who posts misinformation the average 7th grader could see through, and another who immediately jumps on the "I'm a realtor I'll help you liquidate your listings and get a fat check for no real effort with my 90 hours of training". Thanks bruh, I sold two of my houses myself and saved the 60+K in commissions. Ironically both are realtors. What a joke. Low barrier to entry profession. I got my real estate license after my MBA and 16 technical certifications to cut out the overpaid middle man who apparently can't tell fact from fiction, lol. What a joke.

 I'm a realtor, thanks.

You still have to pay for groceries, you still have to pay for gas, but you can live rent free forever apparently under Governor Dingus Inslee. Landlords are not even allowed to enforce the back rent owed in many cases now....I own multiple rental houses throughout King County, bought 1 more earlier this year and was buying 4 more this year but I will absolutely NOT buy more rentals in WA. My plan to accelerate the liquidation of my assets here and relocate out of state is accelerating.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.governor.wa.gov/ne... as provided in this paragraph, landlords, property owners, and property managers are prohibited from treating any unpaid rent or other charges related to a dwelling or parcel of land occupied as a dwelling as an enforceable debt or obligation that is owing or collectable, where such non-payment was as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak and occurred on or after February 29, 2020, and during the State of Emergency proclaimed in all counties in Washington State. This includes attempts to collect, or threats to collect, through a collection agency, by filing an unlawful detainer or other judicial action, withholding any portion of a security deposit, billing or invoicing, reporting to credit bureaus, or by any other means. This prohibition does not apply to a landlord, property owner, or property manager who demonstrates by a preponderance of the evidence to a court that the resident was offered, and refused or failed to comply with, a re-payment plan that was reasonable based on the individual financial, health, and other circumstances of that resident; failure to provide a reasonable repayment plan shall be a defense to any lawsuit or other attempts to collect.

What does your states landlord tenant laws state as far as time to repair appliances?

Normal well behaved kids don't jump all over the landlords property and try to break it, and parents who manage kids well don't stand there and just watch it then look at you and grin....regardless of what you think.

 It may not seem like it hurts to ask. It may not. It does communicate that you don't know what you are doing yet. Ultimately whether it's a month to month or a 12 month, if he refuses to leave when you ask him to, he becomes a hold over tenant and you have to go through judicial eviction. Personally I don't care if people smoke weed at my properties, it's legal here. But if I EVER get any inclination they are dealing out of my house the Cops will be the least of their worries...

 Yay! Someone who gets it! Shutdowns caused job losses and we are about to see a wave of foreclosures in the next year or two...