My disabled son just received a 3-day pay or quit notice for overdue rent. The lease says that my son will pay $325 a month to rent a room but my son says that he, the landlord and the other 3 roommates had a verbal agreement that my son would only pay $300 due to the fact that is all that he gets a month from DSHS. The landlord say that my son must now pay $175 in back rent that he doesn’t agree he owes. Is there anything he can do besides having me pay? Also, my son says that the landlord has stopped paying the mortgage and is apparently going to do a foreclosure or short-sale but is still having the renters pay rent. He lives in Auburn WA.

My son rented the room in September and has been paying only 300 a month not the 325 that is shown on the lease. At this point just to keep him calm I’m going to pay the extra but put “past disputed rent” in the memo line and take care of it later when he is feeling better.

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I met with my son today and read the 3-day or quit notice. It appears legal but what my son didn’t notice was that there was a second page there giving him his 30-day notice! He has to move out by midnight on March 1st!!! There is also a keybox on the doorknob and the relators came in and took pictures already. What a mess! My son wants to stay to the end of the month but doesnt’ want to pay this months rent + the extra the guy says he owes and he only gets $300 a month from DSHS!!