Regulators
Greystar Real Estate Partners filed a breach notice stating an unauthorized party accessed an employee email account between May 1 and May 18, 2026 and acquired files containing personal information; affected people were offered 24 months of credit monitoring. This is a mandatory disclosure, not an enforcement action; no lawsuit over this breach was found.
breach notice filed
Aug 27, 2026 · Washington State Attorney General (data breach notification filing) · Washington
Regulators
Filed in King County Superior Court, the suit names Greystar Management Services, LLC and GREP Washington, LLC among landlords alleged to have conspired with RealPage to raise and stabilize rents and exchange nonpublic competitive information in Washington.
pending
Apr 3, 2025 · Washington State Attorney General · Seattle, WA
Court Docket
Filed on behalf of tenants who moved out early and were charged, or had deposits applied to, buy-out fees, reletting charges and/or future rent. Greystar removed the case to federal court, which remanded it to King County Superior Court.
pending (trial set Feb 2027 per counsel)
Apr 2025 · King County Superior Court (per plaintiffs' counsel Schroeter Goldmark & Bender) · Seattle, WA
Letters from Tenants
Reviewer, a college student, alleges they were required to pay a month's rent before receiving any lease terms on a promise of a full refund if unsatisfied, and that requests for that refund went unanswered.
published
Jul 7, 2023 · Trustpilot · The M · Seattle, WA
Letters from Tenants
Reviewer alleges a toilet that broke again after repair was never fixed, leading to mold discovered at move-out, and that the full deposit was withheld although the damage stemmed from the repairs. Reviewer also reports unexplained rent increases.
published
May 2, 2023 · RateTheLandlord.org · Everett, WA
Court Docket · The Chairman
A self-represented tenant filed a civil rights suit against Greystar Real Estate Partners, Bob Faith (individually and in his official capacity), a property-owning LLC, Spokane County, a law firm and others. The district case closed in May 2023; the Ninth Circuit appeal, which the clerk flagged as possibly frivolous, closed in September 2023.
closed 2023 (no relief to plaintiff found)
Jan 18, 2023 · U.S. District Court, E.D. Wash. (No. 2:23-cv-00015); 9th Cir. No. 23-35403 · Spokane, WA
Court Docket
The class alleged Greystar charged rental applicants in Washington tenant-screening fees without the advance disclosures state law requires (applications June 2016 - August 2020). Greystar denied wrongdoing and agreed to a $2.5 million settlement, which the court finalized Feb. 1, 2022.
settled $2.5M
Feb 1, 2022 · U.S. District Court, E.D. Wash. (Daley v. Greystar, 2:18-cv-00381) · Washington
