• 16 Chapters/49,000 Landlord Constituent Members

President/Executive Officer: Tim Seth
Senior Vice President: John Wells
Vice Presidents: Louise Garbe, William Luke, John Merchant
Secretary/Treasurer: Audrey Tucker
Lobbyist: Bob Brett

WLA Advisory Board
Montgomery Barnes - Tacoma
Bruce & Sharon Bishop - Spokane
Bruce Burris - Tacoma
Virginia DeBord - Marysville
Charlene Fansler - Kennewick
John Gipson - Olympia
Ted Kobernick - Vancouver
Jerry Lucker - Seattle
Tom McGarry - Spokane
Willie Oliver - Bremerton
Tom Pinckney - Tacoma
Donn Tyler - Lakewood
Dan White - Gig Harbor

WLA Staff
Operations Manager - Tim Seth
Screening & IT/Website - David Jones
Membership & Ads - Carole Krusinski
Advisory Management - John Wells
Vacation Watch - Steve Green
Printing Services - Jeff Martin
Office Support - Donna Durrelle

Legal Advisory Attorneys
Dan Lazares, Tom McGarry, Alan Ruder, Tom Taylor, Ken Valz

Biography - Tim Seth
 Founder and executive officer of Washington Landlord Association, Tim has owned, managed and maintained 26 rental properties with 86 rental units in Olympia, Seattle, and Yakima. An engineering graduate from WSU, he took graduate university business courses and served as a corporate business education administrator for a large mid-west manufacturing company. Returning to the Northwest, Tim set up a 55-shareholder Washington rental property investment corporation…implementing his innovative investment leverage models (that still apply today… see Resource Center, “Investments”). He followed with licenses as an engineer in-training, general contractor, and real estate sales (with training in property appraising). He also operated an independent rental management and repair business...proving to be quite handy with tools and resolving hands-on tenant issues.
His public service includes chair of the Thurston County Housing Authority, project lead for State WAC personnel law development, advisory services for rental owner callers to the Washington Attorney General’s Office, and many public and housing ad hoc committees. In response to increasing fair-housing regulations, Tim developed WLA's bias-free tenant selection scoring system patterned after long-established civil service employment testing standards.
Throughout his career, Tim has stayed active as an officer, volunteer lobbyist, and essayist in a variety of landlord associations throughout the state. He enjoys helping landlords and tenants.