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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

  1. Go to atg.wa.gov/file-complaint and choose the consumer complaint option.
  2. Reuse the same factual, chronological account you wrote for your DOL complaint (trim to fit their fields).
  3. Identify the business as Dwellings Seattle, Inc., 3806 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116, and note that a Department of Licensing investigation is active (include your DOL case number if you have it).
  4. Submit and keep your confirmation number.
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.