10 RCW 59.18.380.
11 Indigo. 169 Wn. App. at 421; Carlstrom v. Hanline, 98 Wn. App. 780,
788, 990 P.2d 986 (2000); Leda v. Whisnand. 150 Wn. App. 69, 81-82, 207 P.3d
468 (2009).
12 Indigo. 169 Wn. App. at 421; Carlstrom, 98 Wn. App. at 788; Leda, 150
Wn. App. at 82.
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Any notice provided for in this chapter shall be served either (1) by
delivering a copy personally to the person entitled thereto; or (2) if
he or she be absent from the premises unlawfully held, by leaving
there a copy, with some person of suitable age and discretion, and
sending a copy through the mail addressed to the person entitled
thereto at his or her place of residence; or (3) if the person to be
notified be a tenant, or an unlawful holder of premises, and his or
her place of residence is not known, or if a person of suitable age
and discretion there cannot be found then by affixing a copy of the
notice in a conspicuous place on the premises unlawfully held, and
also delivering a copy to a person there residing, if such a person
can be found, and also sending a copy through the mail addressed
to the tenant, or unlawful occupant, at the place where the
premises unlawfully held are situated.
A court has no power to give a landlord relief from a holdover tenancy
unless the landlord gives a tenant proper notice.13
The Tenants claim that the Landlords could not use the third service
alternative because they were home when the Landlords taped the notice to their
door. Thus, they contend, because they could be found at their residence,
service by posting and mailing was not available. We disagree.
As this court has previously observed, the repeated use of the word "or" in