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Wash. Rev. Code § 59.20.040 (2026)

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This chapter shall regulate and determine legal rights, remedies, and obligations arising from any rental agreement between a landlord and a tenant regarding a mobile home lot and including specified amenities within the mobile home park, mobile home park cooperative, or mobile home park subdivision, where the tenant has no ownership interest in the property or in the association which owns the property, whose uses are referred to as a part of the rent structure paid by the tenant. All such rental agreements shall be unenforceable to the extent of any conflict with any provision of this chapter. Chapter 59.12 RCW shall be applicable only in implementation of the provisions of this chapter and not as an alternative remedy to this chapter which shall be exclusive where applicable: PROVIDED, That the provision of RCW 59.12.090, 59.12.100, and 59.12.170 shall not apply to any rental agreement included under the provisions of this chapter. RCW 59.18.055, 59.18.640, 59.18.365, 59.18.370, and 59.18.380 through 59.18.410 shall be applicable to any action of forcible entry or detainer or unlawful detainer arising from a tenancy under the provisions of this chapter, except when a mobile home, manufactured home, or park model or a tenancy in a mobile home lot is abandoned. Rentals of mobile homes, manufactured homes, or park models themselves are governed by the residential landlord-tenant act, chapter 59.18 RCW.
[ 2021 c 115 s 16; 1999 c 359 s 3; 1997 c 86 s 2; 1981 c 304 s 5; 1979 ex.s. c 186 s 2; 1977 ex.s. c 279 s 4.]

Notes:

Finding—Intent—Application—Effective date—2021 c 115: See notes following RCW 59.18.620.
Severability—1981 c 304: See note following RCW 26.16.030.
Severability—1979 ex.s. c 186: See note following RCW 59.20.030.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 21 cases (4 in the last 5 years), 1984–2025 · leading case: W. Plaza, LLC v. Tison, 364 P.3d 76 (Wash. 2015).
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W. Plaza, LLC v. Tison, 364 P.3d 76 (Wash. 2015). · cites it 7× “First, the plain language of RCW 59.20.040 supports this conclusion: This chapter shall regulate and determine legal rights, remedies, and obligations arising from any rental agreement between a landlord and a tenant regarding a mobile home lot and including specified amenities…”
Lawson v. City of Pasco, 230 P.3d 1038 (Wash. 2010). · cites it 3× “040 does not support such a conclusion: This chapter shall regulate and determine legal rights, remedies, and obligations arising from any rental agreement between a landlord and a tenant regarding a mobile home lot.”
Lawson v. City of Pasco, 168 Wash. 2d 675 (Wash. 2010). · cites it 3× “040 does not support such a conclusion: This chapter shall regulate and determine legal rights, remedies, and obligations arising from any rental agreement between a landlord and a tenant regarding a mobile home lot .”
Holiday Resort Cmty. Ass'n v. Echo Lake Assocs., L.L.C., 135 P.3d 499 (Wash. Ct. App. 2006). “RCW 59.20.040. *223 The MHLTA requires a mobile home park landlord to provide a written agreement for a one-year rental term to the tenant at the beginning of the tenancy.”
Holiday Resort Cmty. Assoc. v. Echo Lake Assoc. LLC., 135 P.3d 499 (Wash. Ct. App. 2006). “If, instead, the tenant wants a month-to-month tenancy, the tenant must explicitly waive the right to a one-year rental term in writing. And even if the tenant waives the right to a one-year term and agrees to a different term, the tenant has the right to require the landlord to…”
Little Mountain Estates Tenants Ass'n v. Little Mountain Estates MHC, LLC, 192 P.3d 378 (Wash. Ct. App. 2008). · cites it 2× “RCW 59.20.040. The legislative purpose in enacting the MHLTA was to regulate and protect mobile home owners by providing a stable, long-term tenancy for home owners living in a mobile home park.”
Edna Allen v. Dan & Bills Rv Park, 428 P.3d 376 (Wash. Ct. App. 2018). · cites it 3× “RCW 59.20.040. Under the MHLTA, a “mobile home lot” is defined as a portion of a mobile home park or manufactured housing community designated as the location of one mobile home, manufactured home, or park model and its accessory buildings, and intended for the exclusive use as…”
Duvall Highlands, L.L.C. v. Elwell, 19 P.3d 1051 (Wash. Ct. App. 2001). “See RCW 59.20.040; see also 17 William B. Stoebuck, Washington Practice: Real Estate: Property Law § 6.”
Hartson P'ship v. Goodwin, 991 P.2d 1211 (Wash. Ct. App. 2000). “Here, Goodwin placed in issue the question of who was “ [engaging in ‘criminal activity’ ” by arguing that the marijuana was not his and he knew nothing about it before the police seized it.”
Duvall Highlands LLC v. Elwell, 19 P.3d 1051 (Wash. Ct. App. 2001). “[7] See RCW 59.20.040; see also 17 William B. Stoebuck, Washington Practice: Real Estate: Property Law § 6.”
Country Manor MHC, LLC v. Occupant, 308 P.3d 818 (Wash. Ct. App. 2013). “370; RCW 59.20.040. At the hearing on a motion for a writ of restitution, a tenant is entitled to answer and may assert any legal or equitable defenses arising out of the tenancy.”
United States v. 19.7 Acres of Land, 692 P.2d 809 (Wash. 1984). “9 RCW 59.20.040. 10 See Scottsdale v. Eller Outdoor Advertising Co.”
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