Civetta Properties    |    Greg Goodwin    |    Seattle    ,    Washington 98133    Landlord Complaint 23-3939

We had to break our lease (which does not end until late August) at the dwelling at 3441 9th Ave W, myself, Karen Kirr and my roommate, Rebecca Hayes; however, we gave our notice in early March, paid for April rent even though we are no longer living in the unit and also provided the Greg with new tenants for the unit on March 20th that want to move in ASAP (I have documentation on all of this). We also left the unit in excellent condition. For some reason, he has instructed his staff not to rent out our unit, as now several interested tenants have attempted to submit an application but were refused with the Civetta Properties staff telling them they had no idea when the unit would be available again. The tenants we found are highly qualified and wanted to move in weeks ago. I mailed the unit keys belonging to the dwelling at 3441 9th Ave W to Greg via certified mail last week, and still there is no response to my calls or emails. And no response to the tenants for that matter, either, who have been calling consistently trying to submit an application to the unit, which is now vacant. We have been attempting to go through this whole process with integrity, but are instead being ignored and disrespected. I'm quite baffled by the whole thing. I can only presume that he is trying to penalize us, and I'm not sure why, as we did the legwork to ensure he has new tenants. We set everything up so that Greg would have no period where rent was being collected,but instead he is refusing to do anything, even sign new tenants or list the property for rent. Queen Anne properties don't last long for rent in this market either. We took much time out of our busy days to ensure Greg lost no revenue, but now he is just sitting on the unit. Per Washington State law, landlords are required to make an effort to rent a unit out if a tenant breaks their lease. If we receive a bill for May rent for the full $1295 (and he still refuses to allow new tenants) from Greg we will have no choice but to take this matter small claims court. Again, i'm pretty baffled as to why this has been blown up so much by Civetta Properties when the new tenants are waiting to write him checks. While we hated to break our lease, things happen. I decided to buy a place, and unfortunately, one cannot always buy a place around when a lease ends. The names and phone numbers of the new tenants we acquired are listed below: Aly cell #: 1 (425) 457-0198 Kassie cell #: 1 (208) 346-113