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Washington State Attorney General
This is general information, not legal advice.
Why
The Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division tracks patterns of complaints against a business and can pursue consumer-protection enforcement. Filing is free and takes about fifteen minutes.
How
- Go to atg.wa.gov/file-complaint and choose the consumer complaint option.
- Write a short, factual, chronological account of what happened (see What to write on the DOL page for what to cover), trimmed to fit their fields. If you have already filed with DOL, you can reuse that account.
- Identify the business as Dwellings Seattle, Inc., 3806 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116, and note that the Department of Licensing has investigated the firm (and referred it for possible administrative action) and that Seattle Police have opened an investigation (include your DOL case number if you have one).
- Submit and keep your confirmation number. The AG typically mails you a case number about 20 days after you file — if you're a group member, add it to your record in the portal (My record → Case numbers) when it arrives.
Honest note: the AG's informal-resolution process (a letter to the business) is unlikely to produce a response from a company that has ceased operating. The value is the pattern the AG builds across many complaints.