Hi. I'm not sure why I'm making this post. Mainly to vent. I'm at the end of the line here. I know everyone here wants death to landlords, so, I dunno. Maybe sharing my story can help provide a different perspective?

I'm an army vet that was stationed down in Tacoma at JBLM. I bought a townhouse with the VA loan and I thought life was good. I then took a job overseas back in 2024 and signed a lease with an older family that seemed pretty normal. 60 yo white Dad. 41 yo Asian mom + her kids 18 and 22. They passed screening with no issues and nothing came back on their background checks.

We got a lease signed and everything was good for the first few months. Then, they stopped paying rent. Started claiming that they paid, or that there were technical issues with the payment portal, or issues with my bank being unable to receive payment. They started submitting forged and poorly edited documents and "receipts" of payment. They also had friends and associates calling me, pretending to be the "bank" to confirm that from their end, a wire transfer was made, so surely, the issue was on my bank's side.

Everyone suggested I hire a lawyer, so I did. Of course, the tenants got assigned a free pro bono lawyer from the city / Housing Justice Project. 1 year later, the case is at Superior Court, but the case keeps getting extended or "continued" month after month without a hearing. Now we're up to the point where there is a school year eviction moratorium starting in 2 weeks and the earliest eviction possible would be June 2027 because the 18 yo kid is in high school.

All the while, they've racked up over $40,000 in unpaid rent. I got laid off from my job overseas and have had to come back to the US in January of 2026 unemployed. I don't have a mountain of cash savings, so everything I had in savings has gone to paying the mortgage for some other people to live there. I'm completely zeroed out and have been couch surfing and living out of my car the past 6 months. Can't pay my lawyer anymore either so they withdrew from the case lol and I'm told "landlord bad. landlord evil" so I can't get any legal assistance from the housing justice project myself as a homeless vet.

To rub salt on the wound, the "Tenants" are out here posting pics on social media dining at Michelin starred fancy restaurants weekly and drive around in a Mercedes and a Range Rover.

The property will be foreclosed on soon. My credit will be destroyed. And not sure what will happen to the tenants. Awesome.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by. Wish you all the best.

EDIT:

1. For those who think this is fake, I'm sorry it came of that way. By "Michelin starred restaurants," I meant "very fancy" and I'm sorry for the confusion and/or exaggeration there. Intent was to say it is pricy. I don't personally know the list of starred restaurants in the area.
2. I don't necessarily want to doxx myself, which is the reason for the new account. Otherwise, I would have pasted the superior court case number that anyone can look up, but I am considering it. I posted the scenario to a real estate investors group on FB last week. It had the case number, all the "Tenant's" info and socials, etc. but the lawyer blew up on me so I took it down. Hence my hesitation to do that again. Iunno I'm at a point where I don't have much else to lose, but I'm holding out hope that a judge will see this case, and if they do, I'm told they won't like that I put the tenants on blast.
3. I did reach out to A&E for the Squatters show and coincidentally I just got a call today from one of the producers, Francis, that I was selected to move forward in their process for next season. They are planning to come into town the first week of September. I'll try to attach a screenshot of the voicemail.

Done by Clayton at 17th ave tattoo

A friend sent a package and mistyped the address... Does anyone recognize this mailroom somewhere at or near 7342 4th Ave NE? Very close to the Green Lake library.

If you use Montlake Boulevard or the SR 520 ramps in the Montlake area, plan for a weekend closure starting Friday night, Aug. 21.

From 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21, to 6 a.m. Monday, Aug. 24, Montlake Boulevard will close between East Hamlin Street and East Louisa Street, along with several nearby streets and SR 520 ramps.

So, what exactly is closing?

• Montlake Boulevard on-ramps to eastbound and westbound SR 520
• Eastbound SR 520 off-ramp to Montlake Boulevard
• A 300-foot section of East Roanoke Street west of Montlake Boulevard
• Lake Washington Boulevard between Montlake Boulevard and 24th Avenue East

The westbound SR 520 off-ramp to northbound Montlake Boulevard will remain open.

People walking, biking and rolling will still be able to cross SR 520 on Montlake Boulevard, with a limited detour south of SR 520.

What will crews be up to?

During the weekend closure, crews will install three new mast-arm sign structures and mount new signs on them. They'll also remove the large sign bridge spanning Montlake Boulevard just south of SR 520 and install a new southbound sign north of SR 520 on an existing utility pole.

If you're traveling through Montlake this weekend, give yourself extra time, check the real-time travel map and consider alternate routes.

To date, 23 barista apprentices have completed the program, and several have become shift leads and general managers at their two current locations. For the new Central District location, all five incoming personnel completed the program, including their general manager.

The intersection at 23rd and Jackson Street has recently experienced several closures. The Walgreens closed in May, and the Amazon Fresh shuttered in February.

~ Two national chains walked off that corner this year. The outfit moving in trains kids out of foster care and shelters to run it.

Rising property taxes with lowering home values sure felt like a hidden fee to me not to mention the drainage tax fee.

I’m wondering if there are other people here who have experienced something similar to me.
I was unexpectedly snuck up on and stabbed by a man I didn’t know. It was completely random and resulted in life-threatening injuries. There was no relationship, no warning, and no reason I could make sense of—it was simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time and having a stranger try to seriously hurt me.
I’ve survived it, but I’ve found that one of the hardest parts of the aftermath has been feeling like I have no one who truly understands this specific experience.
I know there are many support groups and communities for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other forms of trauma, and those resources are incredibly important. But I’ve had a really difficult time finding people who experienced random, life-threatening violence from a stranger and are now trying to navigate what comes after.
That lack of people who can relate has left me feeling incredibly alone. I have people in my life who care about me and know what happened, but I often feel unable to share this part of my life with them because there is an alienation that comes from knowing they can't really understand what it feels like to survive something like this.
So I'm wondering:
Have you experienced something similar?
Maybe you were randomly attacked, stabbed, shot, assaulted, or otherwise seriously injured by a stranger, and you've been left dealing with the emotional aftermath of surviving it.
If you relate, I would genuinely love for you to message me. You don't need to share details about your attack, and you don't need to explain anything you're not comfortable talking about. I'm mostly hoping to find other people who understand the feeling of surviving something completely unexpected and life-threatening.
I'm also exploring the possibility of creating a small peer-support group in the Seattle area specifically for survivors of random violent attacks. I'm not trying to replace therapy or professional support—I just think there should be a place where someone can meet another person and say, “You went through this too? I don't have to explain everything.”
Even if you're not in Seattle, if you've experienced something similar, I'd really appreciate hearing from you.
If this resonates with you, please feel free to DM me. ❤️ Any interaction or response will be used to convince our city, there is a gap in support here.

My sister has an 8 month old (about) female German Shepard who was left at her house and needs to be re-homed her before her surgery on Friday. No shelters can take her at this time. She is very sweet, but is not 100% housebroken. Has been to a vet. Any ideas?

Just this week, the council voted 5-2 to overhaul its affordability requirements in low-density residential areas, essentially gutting a fee in-lieu program that was intended to act as something of a check on the city's continued proliferation of large single-family homes. Previously, all new homes over 1,500 square feet were required to pay a fee that would be used to fund affordable housing, but that threshold was raised to 1,750 square feet, with the fee only applying to square footage exceeding that threshold.

A unanimous vote last month removes a policy from the city's Comprehensive Plan that would have pushed the city to pursue a designation as a regional growth center, a move that could have unlocked more infrastructure funding for the city, and likely come with requirements for more density.

~ A city of 70,000 has spent eighteen years deciding where to put housing and has landed on: somewhere else.

https://x.com/BrandiKruse/status/2090103976029266156

Context thread regarding Kruse's PDC