Landlord made horrible new parking rules with 20 days notice. The lease specifies they will provide 30 days. Have *they* broken the lease, and am I allowed to leave? Additionally, are they responsible for towing fees during those 10 days before the rules could go into effect? [Burien, WA]

I'll try to provide a succinct timeline and relevant lease quotes, and then include questions about what outcomes are possible/desirable. I signed a one year lease in october. And if affects anything, I know the email for my property managers boss. It might be, as historically this property manager is unresponsive, unhelpful, and straight up lies.

12/12 - First email announcing parking policy, starting Feb 1st. Parking policy goes from "park anywhere anytime" to "each apartment has one assigned space, all guests and 2nd cars will use the small number of available spaces, and anyone can call a tow truck on anyone that is in their space." This is mostly a poor family neighborhood, so many familes have 2 working parents and 2 cars, and for many families a towing fee or coming out to see your car gone could be the difference between having a home or not

12/13 -Second email stating the start date as Jan 1st.

12/30 - Go to office for new parking decal/spot, and ask iwhich is the start date, am told feb 1st by the two present employees.

1/2 - car gets towed, and I pay 500 to get it back. The street/parking lot is chaos, constantly cars going in loops looking for parking, people laying on their horns to get someone out of their space, and a regular stream of tow trucks.

1/3 - email property management, they respond "1/1 is the policy start date, 2/1 is the start date for new payment." Lie. The intial email says "We hope this message finds you well. We are writing to inform you of an important change to the parking policy at [property name], effective February 1, 2025."

Relevant lease section: "Management reserves the right to change parking spaces, temporarily prohibit parking, or terminate parking privileges, with or without cause, during the Lease, with 30 days written notice."

From parking adendum (signed with lease): "If you are assigned a specific parking space(s) we shall assign you the space(s) and retain the right to change assigned spaces or to terminate any right to park on the property, without cause, at our sole discretion with thirty (30) days written notice, even during a lease term."

Now on to hopeful results...

I want out. Long story short, this new parking method does not work for me, and the property manager has been terrible since the start. Given that they violated the terms put in our lease, does that mean I'm legally allowed to exit it without paying the termination fees and remaining rent? I'm thinking about offering to drop it in exchange for ending my lease at the end of February.

If I can't get out, I want to raise a stink, and hopefully get this parking policy reversed and tow truck fees for myself and the other residents covered by management (at least the ones before the 30 day notice period would be up).