House Bill 1358 repeals RCW 59.20.300 and amends RCW 59.20.325 and RCW 59.20.335 to change the procedure owners must follow before marketing or selling a manufactured/mobile home community. Owners must give written notice by certified mail or personal delivery to tenants, officers of any known qualified tenant organization, the Department of Commerce, the local government and housing authorities with jurisdiction, and the Washington State Housing Finance Commission before listing or marketing the property and when they receive an offer they intend to consider. The notice must describe a tenants’ opportunity to compete to purchase (allowing a qualified tenant organization representing a majority of home sites, or an eligible organization, to compete), set a 70‑day deadline to form or identify a single qualified tenant organization, allow a 20‑day period for tenant representatives to request park operating expenses, and include other required contact and filing information with the Department of Commerce. The bill imposes timing and information requirements (for example, notices to government entities must be sent within 10 days of tenant notice, the owner must update the Department of Commerce within six months and the Department must publish that update within 10 business days, and a new notice is required if the property remains unsold nine months after the notice). It requires parties to act in good faith and commercially reasonably, requires owners to permit tenants to develop offers and to consider those offers reasonably, and to provide tenants information that would be given to a commercial buyer. A minor error in providing the notice does not void a sale or create owner liability. If an owner substantially fails to comply in a way that prevents competition, tenants or an eligible organization may seek injunctive relief and recover actual damages up to twice the monthly rent per tenant. A party that substantially misuses or discloses confidential information may recover actual damages. The Department of Commerce must prepare tenant information about buying manufactured dwellings or communities and notices to it must include a tenant list on a department form and copies of tenant notices. The bill allows electronic delivery of notices to the Department of Commerce, local governments, housing authorities, and the Housing Finance Commission. The text defines only that a “qualified tenant organization” must represent a majority of tenants by home sites; key terms such as “eligible organization,” “park operating expenses,” “tenants committee,” and the full meanings of referenced statutes (RCW 59.20.330, RCW 59.20.340(1), and chapter 40, Laws of 2023) are not provided in the extracted material, so their precise effects or cross-references are unclear from these facts alone.

If enacted, owners of manufactured/mobile home communities would have to pause routine marketing and take specific steps before and during a sale: they must give certified or personal written notice to residents, certain agencies, and tenant organization officers, allow a 70-day window for tenants to form a representative group to try to buy the park, provide operating expense information on request, and make periodic public updates through the Department of Commerce. Practically this creates extra paperwork, timing constraints, and information-sharing obligations that can slow listing and sale timelines, increase transaction costs for owners, and require them to treat tenant offers seriously while keeping shared financial data confidential. The people most affected are community owners (greater administrative workload, potential delays, and limited liability for minor notice errors but possible injunctive relief and modest damages if compliance prevents tenant competition), tenants (a clearer, time-limited chance to organize and receive financial information to mount an offer), and agencies named to receive notices and post updates (additional tracking and disclosure duties). Key terms like “eligible organization,” the scope of required operating expense disclosures, and how this interacts with referenced laws are not defined here, so some practical details and enforcement boundaries remain unclear.