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We live in WA State where our Tenant Protects are overkill. We are so inundated with tasks and timelines PER CITY in our major metro area that it's unreasonable. Some of the protections we understand, yet were doing them already as good stewards of our role. Since government can't make everyone happy, tenants won't be happy and landlords won't be no matter what they decide. It seems prudent that the trend of protections be managed by the jurisdictions who are taking initiative to provide them. The national level is too wide of a swath to apply these effectively.

The COVID tenant protections we already have are why we have tenants, today, owing us $10K, $18K, $20K, and some smaller balances.

WA State always goes deeper than the feds where it thinks it can protect people. By cutting landlords off at the ankles financially isn't actually helping tenants have clean, operating homes to live in. That takes money.

We operate small, older, clean, conventional yet affordable places to live (compared to our market). A small building of 13 units is hurt with someone owing $20K.

This has been a painful season with tenants and it ends up hurting the tenant when the cost of operating a building means it can't reserve for major repairs, AND the landlord never had the opportunity to save to handle it.

Let landlords manage their buildings. There are some bad ones, yes---so why not penalize those guys? Why are we good ones being challenged so much?

I don't think belongs at a national level. There are plenty of other tasks that can consume lawmakers' time which are worthy and needed considerations.

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