For small-time landlords, it is a situation right out of a nightmare — a tenant all but takes over a property, breaking the rules of the rental agreement, trashing the house and yard to the point that the city declares it a nuisance, and refusing to leave even after being served with a notice to vacate. But that is the situation in which one Tacoma landlord says she found herself.
Tacoma homeowner Robin Kelly has rented out her family’s longtime house — which her grandparents bought in the 1960s and she purchased in 1980 — to the same tenant for five years.
At first, things went well. After a
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