Tenant Rights Attorney in Washington State

An eviction that violates Washington law can support a claim for real damages: the cost of losing your home, your belongings, and your stability. Rivercrest Law litigated a wrongful eviction case through discovery and mediation to the eve of jury trial before it resolved for $725,000. If you were evicted without proper notice, in retaliation, or through an unlawful process, you may have a claim worth pursuing.

Washington's rent stabilization law limits how much and how often rent can be raised, and it has teeth. Rivercrest Law has repeatedly forced landlords to rescind unlawful rent increases, in some matters community-wide and within a week of the firm's involvement, with reimbursements paid to affected households.

Deposit withholding, junk fees, and early termination penalties are among the most common ways renters lose money. Washington law regulates what a landlord may charge and what must be returned. Rivercrest Law pursues these claims and has recovered damages for tenants without ever filing suit.

Landlords have duties to maintain rental housing. When defective conditions damage your property or your health and the landlord will not fix them, Rivercrest Law holds landlords to those duties. In one recent matter, the landlord paid the tenant's damages in full and completed a restoration of the defective conditions at the landlord's own expense.

Leases written to sidestep Washington law do not get the last word. The firm has voided unlawful lease terms imposed by a national landlord, with every improper rent increase rescinded, lawful rents restored, and damages of three months' rent paid to Rivercrest clients.

Before founding the firm, Sebastian Miller enforced tenant rights as an Assistant Attorney General, leading landlord investigations that produced millions of dollars in relief for tenants statewide. That work included the enforcement action at the Beacon RV mobile home park in Ilwaco, where residents received nearly $1.1 million in total relief, and the investigation of a large corporate landlord that led to $5.5 million in refunds for mobile home park tenants, the largest reimbursement in program history. Those results were achieved in service with the Washington Attorney General's Office and are the State's, not Rivercrest Law's.