Understanding Washington Evictions

Eviction summons

Non payment of rent

I was given a 14 day pay or vacate. I was trying to comply however the landlord changed the locks and i could not get into the apartment building and also my landlord changed the locks for the downstairs where my storage is and dod not give me a key

I wasnt paying i was vacating. I just paid * dollars in back rent the next month she gave me the 14day pay or vacate when the locks were changed i called the cops but they did not help me

No there was not a court order and as i was leaving the building the day the locks were changed the landlord was at the bottom of the staris and she said nothing about changing the licks. It was a month before when she changed the locks to the storage area. And i have asked several times for a key but still did not get one

Yes i have them documented on my calender and i had a police report made when i was locked out

Yes but i do not have legal counsel yet. I contacted the NWJP and i have not gotten a return call if they are taking my case. I have a notice of apperamce due on the 6th of october * and a hearing on october 9th * and dont know what to do.

No. I was told by the NWJP in thurston county that someone will contact me so im waiting to hear from them. But time is running out for me to file my response

It was over a week ago i called the NWJP and i had to go thru the screening. Then i spoke to an attorney who i discussed the lock out she wrote a lwtter to the landlord about it was illegal for her to change locks then i hot rhe eviction papers it was like she was retaligating against me for contacting an attorney who told her what she did was illeagal the attornet told me if i hot eviction papers to contact the eviction help line asap which i did. And now i am running out of time and dont know if they are representing me or not

Yes they referred me to thurston county when i spoke to them rhey did their screening and said they would get bavk to me and its been a week and nothing more from them

I tried to call but got no answer. I was gonna try again today. They said that someone will contact you but nothing

I dont know how to fo that

It wasn't that I was trying not to do the 14 day. Payer vacate because I was trying to get out. But since she changed the locks. I couldn't get to my stuff and so I couldn't leave. Because I wasn't leaving my stuff there. And she also changed the she turned off. My hot water 1 day so I was without hot water for a few days. One of the rooms to the house is it caught on fire a couple years ago, and the wall still has not been fixed. There's a lot of issues with the reason why I was moving out with the 14 day pair vacate. But it was like she just retaliated against me for for talking to the attorney so it wasn't that I wasn't trying to vacate the purposes it was just I wasn't leaving my stuff there

I did document these issues and I did talk to the landlord about it. She refused to do nothing about the situation. She hired a home sweet home to take care of her rental issues, but home sweet home didn't do anything about it. Neither they were actually quite rude. When I spoke to the Northwest Justice project. I informed the lady that the attorney * that I spoke to who wrote the letter to the a church to the landlord. About the lock that was illegal and there have been so many issues with my landlord throughout this whole time that I felt that the best thing that I had going for me was just to vacate the premises when she gave me the 14 day. Pay your vacafter that she, that was when she changed the locks and I couldn't get my stuff out. So I didn't know what to do as far as you know how to file anything in court about all this stuff or what my options were. On all the issues that I had with my landlord. There have been several issues about her maintenance person. Taking the locks off the doors downstairs and my stuff. Getting stolen, I've had over $* worth of tools stolen from my storage unit downstairs. I've had a motorcycle stolen out of my garage that had locks on it, but she had her maintenance. Person removed the locks, so now my stuff got stolen, the landlord is pretty. I'm not taking care of her building very well and I just I needed to speak to someone about what my actual legal issues and options. We're, and I don't know who to talk to you. Because I haven't heard back from an attorney yet. That I was told to call.

I called the cops reported the theft they came over. They didn't look around really at anything. They asked me if I had any serial numbers so I gave them the list. Of serial numbers of the tools that were stolen and the other items and then and then that was it so. Yes, I did have that documented with the police. Then there was another occasion when I had to speak with my landlord about. I was gone for * weeks at work in Seattle when I came back. I found out that all my meat in my freezer which was like $* worth of elk meat. I just had process. Dear meat fish berries that I had bought purchase from Berry farms and stuff. And I guess the downstairs flooded and the maintenance person took it upon himself to go dig into our stuff. Found a subpump that didn't work. It shorted out our fuse panel. And since he couldn't get into our laundry room. I didn't know that the breakers flipped. And then I lost on all of my dear meeting stuff. When I spoke to the landlord. She said that it's not her responsibility or her. She doesn't have anything to do with it. Because the maintenance guy that works there doesn't work for her. It's not hit her employee which she said she only hired him to redo. The upstairs apartment comp building or the upstairs apartment. But she, hes not an employee. So she's not responsible for the damage that he caused to my stuff.

I did, but he doesn't feel that hes responsible neither he tries to blame it on somebody else that was living in my apartment at the time watching my stuff, but this person didn't go downstairs digging in my stuff to get the stub pump out to plug it in to drain out the downstairs. That was his doing, but he says hes not responsible for a neither, and therefore that's the reason why I got hold of the landlord to ask her about it, and she just says it wasn't. It's not her responsibility and she's not paying me back for any of it. And there's nothing I can do about it, she said.

I did, and they said that well. There's nothing we can do, it's a civil matter.

No I haven't heard anything back Back from them other than I spoke to a lady. The other day when I called and left the message that I needed help. And she said that my case had been referred to Thurston County. But I just spoke that Thursday county the day before and they told me that I was waiting to hear back from them again. So I've been waiting all week and still haven't heard anything back from them.

No i have not. The number they gave me goes back to the same person who days soneone will be contacting you

No my case is out of grays harbor county superior court is where my eviction is

I have to have a response filed before 5pm on october 6th and have a hearing on october 9th for show cause

Unlawful detainer, eviction coplaint and show cause papers were served thru the mail a week aho

Well i was given a 14 day pay or vacate on august *. I was trying to vacate but the landlord changed the locks to downstairs where my storage is and has refused to give me a key. Then i bortowed a truck and trailer to move out and she changed the locks to the building and i could nit get in to my apartment i have asked several times for a key but still have not got a jey.

Yes i called the cops when the locks were changed but they said they could not help me get in and it was a civil matter and if i broke the locks they would have to arrest me.

Thats why i was trying to get help thru the eviction help line. I spoke to a lawyer who said she could represent me but she wrote a letter to the landlord anout lock outs are illegal in wShingron state then the next day after she should of received that letter i have eviction papers served on me it wS like she was retaligating against me for contacting an atyorney about the locks.

No because she was not my attorney, she just wrote the letter to the landlord. She was from the NWJP BUT she does not represent me she said if i recieved evictions papers after the ketter to contact the eviction help line adap whoch i did. They referred me to thurston county and when i spoke to them they said they were giving it to their supervisor who would then contact me if they were taking my case or referring me to someone else i feel like im getting a run around and my time is running out and i need answers to what my options are

Other then having to have a response filed my 5pm on the 6th of october

I have no idea that why i needed legal aid. There is so much going on on my defen e but dont know where to begin or how to start

I have tons of pictures of the building, i have police report case numbers, i have witness statements of the things they witnessed first hand. I have a letter given to the landlord when things went missing from garage and dates written on calender when rhings occured and the changed locks and hotwater getting shut off by landlord have been reported to the police with case number given

Like i said i dont know how to do any of this. I know nothing about the laws thats why i was trying to get legal help. So i could get help filing or know what options i had and what i need or how to get it filed.

Yes i was trying to do that to. But i keep getting the run around. I was told to contact NWJP then they referred me to thurston county then i tried getting answers else where but they said contact EVICTION HELP LINE. THEN THEY havent gotten bavk to me so now im talking to you

No bevause i have to file a response by 5pm on the 6th. And a hearing on the 9th and i have no attobey to represent ne yet and i dont know how to write couet papers and dont want to get railroaded in court because i dont understand how the kaws work

Yes i told you this already now your giving me the same run around. I am getting no where but back and firth

All I've seen to be doing is get a run around from everybody that I have spoken to about this situation first of all I was told to contact the Northwest Justice project which I did this I went through there with their screening. I did all of this I hadn't attorney lately to call me back she said she could not represent me or whatever. But she could write me a letter to the landlord about how illegal it was for her to lock me out of the unit. This didn't change this didn't get my key. It didn't do anything for me. So then I was told that if I was to get a viction papers that I was to content The eviction Hotline and turn it in ASAP. And they would take care of it there so I contacted them about the eviction notice summons complaint. Whatever it is, I contacted them about it. And then they did their screening, and then they referred me to Thurston County, which isn't even the county. Which my eviction is in? My eviction is in grace Harbor so then I contacted them. I got ahold of them spoke to them. And then they said they would be turning it over to their supervisor and their supervisor would be contacting me to tell me whether or not if they would be representing me or if they were referring me to somebody else which I. You haven't heard anything back from him. The sixth is coming up real soon. And nobody is giving me any answers. So no I have not contacted the Washington State bar association on getting an attorney. Because I'm still waiting on Thursday. County which was where I was told to contact so frustrating

I am not an attorney, this is the reason why I have been trying to contact an attorney for help with this situation on this eviction the illegal lock outs that they're not fixing of my not fixing their making repairs on my apartment for the loss of my personal items might by utilities being turned off by the landlord, all these different things. Whatever this is why I've been trying to make contact with the nutrient for the help that I am requesting for this eviction coming up that I have. I would have already been vacated out of the apartment. And when you can be going through this eviction process if the round or would be wouldn't have had me locked. Out of my storage, so that's the reason why i've been trying to contact an attorney to get help, but nobody seems to want to help me even though they say that this is the eviction help line or free legal help or I would ever for legal representation for the seviction process all

That with the Attorney General if I don't know what my legal actions or legal options are as far as what I need to be filing or how do I file this or what I can do about the landlord doing what she has been doing to me other than knowing that the fact that locked out are illegal. In Washington State, illegal evictions are illegal in washington state. That how am I supposed to turn in any of this if I can't even get an attorney to talk to me about what my options are and what is illegal and what she can and can't do to begin with? What am I supposed to turn into the Attorney General's office? If I don't know exactly what I can be following a complaint against.

I have told you this several times already. I told you the evidence that I had against my landlord. I have told you what my landlord has done I have repeatedly asked for some kind of attorney help needed for my vision process since all I am doing is getting a run around run around, run around from here to here to here, and nobody is offering help like they say they are supposed to be helping us with our evictions? I am getting invicted out of my home or something that I had tried to avoid a 13 day. Pay air vacate without trying to vacate the premises as per the notice, but the lamb changed the rocks and had me wrapped out of my thorns and then change the box on the building, which, therefore locked me out of my apartment and I could not get out in time for the 14 day. Pay her biking now I was not leaving my stuff behind. Because I'm not, it is illegal for the landlord to keep my property. So now I'm getting in a fiction notice. Saying that she's going to take me to a fiction court. Which this is why I am trying to get legal advice.