The list of "several evidence based practices' completely ignores the landlord. Who will advocate for the landlord? The think tank fails to address things such as renter caused damages, for instance. I had to replace a two year old carpet after my renters took in two unhousebroken dogs, despite my No Dogs policy. Was I compensated for that?
Or how about the Fish and Wildlife dept. employee who moved here from Wisconsin, paid me one months' rent, and then, because I refused to allow her felon of a boyfriend to move in, who'd just been released from a ten year prison sentence, stopped paying rent. It took me six months to evict her and in the meantime, she trashed my rental house, and then bought one in Olympia after having six months to shop around.
Or how about renters who use the rental as a business, for instance, selling drugs?
Where is the think tank's recommendations about that?
They're painting every landlord as a greedy, racist slum lord, every renter as a poor victim of society. The only tool we have is eviction and if they take that away from me, I will never rent my place out again.
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