This bill amends RCW 19.150.120 to change what must be included in written rental or lease contracts for individual storage spaces at self-service storage facilities and to change certain notice, acceptance, and access procedures. Contracts must require occupants to disclose any lienholders or secured parties with an interest in stored property and must state that stored property may be subject to a lien and sold if rent or other charges remain unpaid for 14 consecutive days. The bill makes the lien conditional on the rental agreement providing space for the occupant to name an alternative recipient for the preliminary lien notice and subsequent notices, and it requires notices under RCW 19.150.040 and 19.150.060 to be sent to both the occupant’s address and that alternative address if provided. It also clarifies that failure to provide an alternative address does not affect an owner’s remedies. The bill allows rental agreements to be delivered and executed electronically and provides that an occupant’s continued use of a storage space for 30 days after delivery of a rental agreement constitutes acceptance if the occupant does not sign. A rental agreement may notify occupants that the owner may dispose of property left more than five days after termination or nonrenewal. After an owner delivers written notice of termination or nonrenewal (by hand, verified mail, or email), the occupant may not use the facility and must be given at least 15 days to remove property; until all property is removed the owner may impose reasonable restrictions on access, including limiting access to office hours, and may dispose of property remaining after the date given in the notice. This is a modification of existing law (an amendment to RCW 19.150.120) making procedural changes to contract contents, notice and acceptance rules, lien attachment conditions, and owner access and disposal procedures. The extracted text does not include definitions of terms used, the full text of the referenced RCW 19.150.040 and 19.150.060 provisions, any effective date, or fiscal provisions, so those details are not available here.

If enacted, owners of self-service storage facilities will have to change their written rental agreements to ask tenants to list any lienholders, warn that property can be liened and sold if charges go unpaid for 14 days, and provide space for an alternative recipient for lien notices; the lien won’t attach unless that alternative recipient space is requested and filled. Facility owners will also be able to use electronic agreements, treat a tenant’s continued use for 30 days as acceptance of an unsigned agreement, limit access and require removal within at least 15 days after giving written termination or nonrenewal notice, and may dispose of property left more than the short notice period allowed in the contract; these changes mean owners must update forms and notice procedures and face more administrative work and a legal risk that a lien may not attach if they fail to obtain the alternative recipient information. Tenants (occupants) will need to disclose secured parties and face faster exposure to lien sale risk if rent is unpaid for 14 days and must remove property within the specified 15-day window after termination or risk disposal; lienholders’ ability to receive preliminary notices will depend on whether the rental agreement requested and recorded an alternative notice recipient. The bill text refers to other notice provisions and lacks an effective date and fiscal details, so how the changes interact with existing notice rules and any costs to implement them is unclear.