Panorama Residential Protective Ass'n v. Panorama Corp.

Members of the Panorama Residential Protective Association, people who reside within the retirement community of Panorama City in Lacey, appeal from a summary judgment in their declaratory judgment action seeking to bar a rent surcharge intended by their landlord, the Panorama Corporation of Washington.

Plaintiffs have lived in Panorama City for varying lengths of time. They occupy their houses and apartments under lifetime leases that allow termination of tenancy, however, upon 90-days' written notice. Periodic rent increases are determined, according to their leases, by reference to the…