| Q001 |
9 months |
Prior insufficient-funds/closed-account personal-check branch in .063; does not remove required alternative payment methods. |
C020 |
| Q002 |
Cash receipt required; noncash receipt on request; mail payment permitted unless an accessible onsite location exists. |
Receipt, payment, dispatch, and legal tender consequences remain distinct. |
C020 |
| Q003 |
Installment exception: deposits + nonrefundable fees ≤25% of first full month’s rent, and no last-month rent required at inception. |
Both conditions required. Holding payment excluded from this calculation. |
C023 |
| Q004 |
Term ≥3 months → 3 equal consecutive monthly installments; other cases →2. |
Begin at inception; due with rent; both parties sign schedule. |
C024 |
| Q005 |
Installment-election interest/fee/cost: none; qualifying refusal penalty: 1 month’s rent + reasonable fees. |
Refusal provision’s stated starting date: January 1, 2021. |
C024–C025 |
| Q006 |
Late-fee protection: payment within 5 days following due date; charge branch only if more than 5 days overdue. |
Permitted starting reference then becomes first day after due date; amount/reasonableness separately unresolved. |
C021 |
| Q007 |
Proposed governmental-income due-date shift: ≤5 days after original due date. |
Written request and stated income predicates required. |
C022 |
| Q008 |
Ordinary rent cap: min(7% + specified CPI percentage, 10%) during any 12 months; no increase in first 12 months. |
Exemptions and vacancy-plus-end-of-tenancy branch apply. No added zero floor or calculation. |
C026 |
| Q009 |
Published 2026: 9.683%; published 2027: 10%. CPI reference: June 12-month Seattle-area CPI-U, all items. |
Commerce publication is used; no independently derived CPI or rounding rule. Future-year figure is not applied in 2026. |
C027 |
| Q010 |
Ordinary increase notice ≥90 days; qualifying income-based change ≥30 days; unauthorized-increase termination notice ≥20 days before termination. |
Term-end/consent conditions and pre-increase termination gate remain; full month of vacation remains payable under .700(3). |
C031–C034 |
| Q011 |
Rent-limit remedies: excess amounts paid; additional award up to 3 months of unlawful rent/fees/costs charged; AG penalty ≤$7,500 per violation. |
Judicial finding and actor-specific predicates; no invented multiplier for total lawful rent. |
C035 |
| Q012 |
Knowing prohibited-clause use: actual damages + statutory amount ≤2 × monthly rent + specified costs/fees. |
Applicable 2025 agreement/renewal gate and knowledge requirements. |
C038, C114 |
| Q013 |
Dishonored-check handling fee: reasonable, per instrument. |
No fixed handling-fee dollar cap authenticated; qualifying check and enforcement capacity required. |
C040–C041 |
| Q014 |
Conditional check interest 12% per annum from dishonor; collection cost ≤min($40, check face amount); statutory notice/wait 15 days. |
Instrument-provision and justifiable-stop-payment exceptions; notice form uses postmark wording. No interest computation. |
C041 |
| Q015 |
Check-action damages: min(3 × check face amount, $300), plus the stated court-awarded reasonable fees. |
Court action, notice, expiration of waiting period, and qualifying instrument required. |
C042 |
| Q016 |
Prehearing check satisfaction relation: face amount + reasonable handling + accrued interest + collection cost bounded by face/$40 + incurred court/service costs + statutory attorney fees. |
Only after commencement and before hearing; not a rental reinstatement formula. |
C042–C043 |
| Q017 |
Residential nonpayment notice: 14 days after service under the specified statutory branch. |
Due rent/default and valid notice; not a limitation period or automatic possession date. |
C045 |
| Q018 |
AG notice publication: 10 most commonly spoken languages plus additional languages as specified; requested readable form on one 8½ ×11-inch page. |
Publication duty does not prove delivery or comprehension in a particular matter. |
C046 |
| Q019 |
Mailed presuit notice: 5 additional days before action commencement. |
Current .040; proper postage/address and deposit within Washington. Not automatically added to every court or writ event. |
C048 |
| Q020 |
Summons return: ≥7 and ≤30 days from service. |
Publication branch is separately court-set and held. Residential form uses a 5 p.m. receipt time and 3-day-before mailing language. |
C052–C053 |
| Q021 |
.055 alternative service: ≥3 attempts, over ≥2 days, at different times; posting and each required mailing ≥9 days before return date. |
Due diligence, declarations, and possession-only jurisdiction limit. .085 additionally requires its court order. |
C054–C055 |
| Q022 |
Show-cause hearing: ≥7 and ≤30 days after service of the order. |
Filed complaint; summons/complaint accompaniment if not already served. |
C056 |
| Q023 |
.380 writ return: 10 days after writ date; prejudgment nonpayment stay branch: payment within 3 days after writ service, plus monthly ongoing rent. |
Court direction and bond predicates; these are not the postjudgment .410 periods. |
C058 |
| Q024 |
If immediate writ relief is denied under the specified .380 branch, trial is set within 30 days. |
Conditional procedural provision, not a guarantee about every trial. |
C058 |
| Q025 |
CR 55 appearance notice ≥5 days; special delayed-default branch more than 1 year →10-day notice. |
Rule’s stated exceptions, service, and judgment-proof requirements remain. |
C059–C060 |
| Q026 |
RCW 1.12.040 excludes first/includes last subject to weekend/holiday rule; CR 6 additionally treats periods <7 days specially; CR 5/6 contain distinct 3-day mail provisions. |
Do not automatically stack or apply a court-rule extension to presuit notice. Legal holidays and observed dates are separately defined. |
C061 |
| Q027 |
Sheriff does not execute the served writ for 3 days under .390; required statutory warning uses ≥12-point bold capitals. |
Service fallback, signed-agreement, court-order, and applicable stay conditions remain. |
C062 |
| Q028 |
Judgment/reinstatement late fees ≤$75 total and due under lease. |
This is not a general monthly late-fee cap. |
C063, C065 |
| Q029 |
Landlord fee bar when rent awarded ≤max(2 × monthly contract rent, $1,200); separate nonresponse bar. |
Possession judgment and .290(4) stay-motion condition. |
C064 |
| Q030 |
Nonpayment judgment execution stayed 5 court days; conditional reinstatement amount = rent due + incurred court costs + qualifying late fees + awarded attorney fees. |
Specified interested actors; assistance-pledge branch extends the opportunity to the date of eviction. |
C065–C066 |
| Q031 |
Assistance suspension: 14 court days after landlord supplies necessary payment information. |
Distinct pledge conditions before and after pay-notice expiration; no automatic pause from an unsupported request. |
C066 |
| Q032 |
Additional reinstatement amount: $50 for each prior postjudgment reinstatement within the preceding 12 months. |
Reference event is the current payment; not every prior late payment. |
C067 |
| Q033 |
Good-cause stay ≤90 days from order; plan >30 days requires cumulative payments for each 30-day period ≥1 month of tenant’s rent share. |
Judgment plus additional rent due must be paid within the statutory 90 days. |
C068–C069 |
| Q034 |
Initial court-plan payment: 1 month’s rent within 5 court days of order. |
Writ may be served meanwhile but execution is restrained for the specified interval; proof-payment branch requires court action. |
C069 |
| Q035 |
Order on/before 15th versus after 15th of month. |
Determines statutory option to apportion following month’s rent; no calendar applied. |
C069 |
| Q036 |
Subsequent court-plan default: 3 calendar days from service; text says an additional day is not included. |
Prescribed notice and prior initial-payment predicates; special relation to amended .040 left unconverted into a calendar. |
C070 |
| Q037 |
Relief restriction: ≥3 prior pay-or-vacate notices within 12 months before current notice; factors also include conduct associated with notices in preceding 6 months. |
Invalid/noncompliant notices and .410(3)(e)(vi) exception matter. |
C068, C071 |
| Q038 |
Mitigation payment not disbursed within 30 days of application permits specified renewed application; prospective-rent branch up to 3 months. |
Court findings, available funds, tenant rights, and reimbursement obligations remain. |
C072 |
| Q039 |
Counsel income alternative: annual after-tax income ≤200% of current federal poverty level. |
No poverty-dollar substitution; alternative listed-benefit branch and appropriations condition remain. |
C074 |
| Q040 |
Tenant periodic termination notice ≥20 days before period end. |
Current .200(1)(a); special military and other termination branches excluded. |
C078 |
| Q041 |
Month-to-month abandonment rent: 30 days following the earlier of knowledge of abandonment or next regular rent-due date. |
Statutory abandonment and reasonable mitigation required. |
C079–C080 |
| Q042 |
Longer-term abandonment liability: lesser of remaining-term rent or [rent during reasonable rerental period + statutory fair-rent/agreed-rent difference + actual rerental costs + statutory court costs + reasonable fees]. |
No invented sign, multiplier, period, zero floor, or valuation for the “difference” term. |
C081 |
| Q043 |
Holding payment ≤25% of first month’s rent; occupancy requires credit to first rent or security deposit. |
Nonoccupancy retention depends on contemporaneous written conditions. |
C086 |
| Q044 |
Assistance inspection not occurring within 10 days after collection, or agreed longer period, triggers the stated notice/release option; refund must be prompt. |
Failed inspection independently bars retention; “prompt” has no numerical period supplied here. |
C087 |
| Q045 |
Holding-payment violation: payment amount plus expressly additional award ≤2 × payment, with prevailing-party costs/fees. |
Statute says “may”; no actual or stacked recovery calculated. |
C088 |
| Q046 |
Deposit accounting/refund within 30 days after both termination and vacation, or after knowledge of statutory abandonment. |
Timely personal delivery or specified first-class mailing; not a receipt deadline in the read clause. |
C089 |
| Q047 |
Damage deduction bounded by substantiated repair/replacement cost of damaged portion, with reasonable labor-rate/time support where applicable. |
No full-item replacement assumption, normal-wear charge, or invented depreciation formula. |
C090 |
| Q048 |
Deposit failure: full deposit liability; intentional-refusal award up to 2 × deposit, with statutory exceptions. |
Additive/overlapping remedy construction held; prevailing-party fee provision separate. |
C091–C092 |
| Q049 |
Fee-alternative disclosure with each covered lease/renewal; statutory form translated into 12 most commonly spoken languages. |
Opt-out deposit invokes installment statute; form says recurring fee stops in following month after deposit payment. |
C096 |
| Q050 |
Fee alternative ≤cost of obtaining and administering required insurance. |
Disclosure/separate acknowledgment of nonrefundability; first month’s fee treated under .610; no general flat fee authorized. |
C097 |
| Q051 |
Discontinuance: 60 days’ notice before term/period end, deposit reduced by previous fee payments, remaining deposit over 3 months. |
In-term insurance alteration prohibited; no negative-deposit/refund formula invented. |
C099 |
| Q052 |
Insurer/collector waits ≥60 days after request and required documents; disputed claim adds 60 days. |
Required first-class mail and email if available; documentation and subrogation predicates. |
C101 |
| Q053 |
Landlord collection gates: 60 days after the later of notice/documentation, and 60 days after insurer claim submission. |
Separate conditions; invoice excluded from defined collection activity; do not collapse them into one trigger. |
C102 |
| Q054 |
Material fee-alternative violation: civil award up to 2 × monthly rent, plus court/arbitration costs and reasonable fees. |
Materiality and civil finding required. |
C103 |
| Q055 |
Intentional utility interruption: actual damages plus discretionary award ≤$100 per day or part, and specified fees/costs. |
Reasonable-repair and statutory conduct qualifications. |
C105 |
| Q056 |
Intentional refusal to return wrongfully detained property: ≤$500 per day or part, aggregate ≤$5,000, alongside specified property-value/actual-damage provisions. |
Specific incident consent, written return demand, and refusal predicates; no duplicate recovery assumed. |
C106 |
| Q057 |
Retaliation/counter-presumption intervals: 90 days. |
Different reference events—protected act, inspection, or prior landlord act—must not be merged. |
C108 |
| Q058 |
Legacy charge/reporting period starts March 1, 2020 and ends by the statutory 6-month-after-moratorium relation. |
Original proclamation chain not fully authenticated; no calculated endpoint. |
C109–C110 |
| Q059 |
.625 civil award up to 2½ × monthly rent, plus costs/reasonable fees; amount must serve deterrence. |
Only after violation of the applicable provision; not an automatic award. |
C110 |
| Q060 |
Legacy plan: monthly payment ≤⅓ of monthly rental charges during accrual; acceptance interval 14 days; first payment not before 30 days after offer. |
Accrual endpoint uses the later statutory emergency relation; rent-only plan and prohibited conditions remain. |
C111 |
| Q061 |
Wrongful eviction measure: greater of economic + noneconomic damages, or 3 × monthly rent, plus reasonable fees/costs. |
Prevailing tenant under .650(4); no actual amount or stacking. |
C118 |
| Q062 |
New-construction exemption ≤12 years from first occupancy certificate to notice; limited owner-occupied residence ≤2 rented units/bedrooms; duplex/triplex/fourplex counts are statutory categories. |
Ownership exclusions and continuity conditions; no actual property classification. |
C028–C030 |
| Q063 |
Lease-type rent difference ≤5%. |
.700(4) parity; subject to overall increase limit; no denominator assumption supplied beyond statutory wording. |
C033 |
| Q064 |
Section .415: single-family term ≥1 year, alternatively bona fide purchase option. |
Attorney approval on lease face still required. |
C008 |
| Q065 |
Seller-after-closing exclusion: written period ≤3 months, with no qualifying later acceptance and the other stated predicates. |
Exact seller arrangement, distress definition, and representation remain conditions. |
C004 |
| Q066 |
Versions and transition dates |
All relied effective, application, expiration, publication-year, and historical-transition dates are separately listed in the version table below. |
C011, C048, C112–C116 |