Rent Smart: Overcoming Barriers to Housing

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RENT SMART WEBINAR IN ENGLISH

Overcoming Barriers to Housing

This webinar will focus on overcoming the barriers that prevent tenants from successfully getting into rental housing. Solid Ground tenant counselors will discuss:

  • Tenant credit information
  • Evictions and orders of limited dissemination
  • Dealing with past debt
  • Criminal history on a tenant’s record
  • Landlord discrimination

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Rent Smart: Looking for Housing – The Basics

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RENT SMART WEBINAR IN ENGLISH

Looking for Housing – The Basics

In this webinar, Solid Ground tenant counselors will focus on:

  • Where to search for housing
  • Tenant screening
  • Best tips for finding a rental
  • Tax credit housing
  • Holding deposits when applying for a rental
  • Overcoming rental barriers such as criminal history and evictions on your record

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Rent Smart: Learning the Basics

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RENT SMART WEBINAR IN ENGLISH

Learning the Basics: Landlord and tenant duties, how to make a repair request, and how to break your lease

Join Solid Ground tenant counselors as they discuss tenants’ rights and procedures under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of Washington state. You’ll learn:

  • How to make a formal repair request
  • When you can break your lease
  • How to formally move out of your unit
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Rent Smart: Repair Issues & Landlord Duties

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RENT SMART WEBINAR IN ENGLISH

Repair Issues & Landlord Duties

Are you having repair issues in your rental home and don’t know if you or your landlord is responsible to remedy them? What exactly are your rights as a tenant and what are the landlord’s duties? Join Solid Ground tenant counselors and legal advisors to find out how you can request rental repairs, and what landlords are required to do under the Residential-Landlord Tenant Act …

Rent Smart: Learning the Basics

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RENT SMART WEBINAR IN ENGLISH

Learning the Basics: Landlord and tenant duties, how to make a repair request, and how to break your lease

Join Solid Ground tenant counselors as they discuss tenants’ rights and procedures under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of Washington state. Learn how to make a formal repair request, and find out when you can break your lease.

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Virtual Volunteer Orientation

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Interested in volunteering to meet basic needs, nurture success, and spread change in our community?

Solid Ground is looking for volunteers like you! Join us at an upcoming Volunteer Orientation to learn more about our mission as an organization, our current volunteer opportunities, and how staff and volunteers work together for Race and Social Justice.

Attending a volunteer orientation is a requirement for anyone who’d like to volunteer with us. We look forward to …

Medicare Open Enrollment Presentation

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Join us for a presentation on Medicare’s Open Enrollment. In this FREE, in-person session, we’ll discuss…

  • What you can do during Open Enrollment
  • Choosing and changing plans
  • What if you are still working at 65
  • How to get help paying for Medicare
  • Updates to the Medicare Program from the Inflation Reduction Act

This class will be presented in partnership with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and SHIBA, Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors. …

Medicare Open Enrollment In-Person Counseling Pop-up Event

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SCHEDULE APPOINTMENT: Contact MIYFS at miyfs@mercerisland.gov or 206.275.7657.

Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA) volunteers are available for in-person appointments to assist with Medicare plan comparison. This pop-up event is in partnership with Mercer Island Youth and Family Services. Appointments will be in the Luther Burbank Building.

Be prepared to bring relevant information such as current health insurance plan, doctors’ names and medical facilities visited, preferred pharmacies, and a detailed list of current medications …