Last Thursday, 10\/29, Blackrock Communities NW officially announced its acquisition of the Brown, Dreher, and Hillcrest Apartments, homes to the 75%+ supermajority Wright Park Tenant Union.<\/strong><\/a> They posted information on doors with an insulting 72 hours to go until November’s rent was due, then tried to push residents to get on their AI-based online portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Monday morning at 9:00am, tenant leaders from all three buildings went straight to Blackrock’s leasing office to pay their rent in person. They arrived with a giant, sweepstakes-style check symbolizing the $37,000<\/strong> in rent they control each month. Blackrock best CHECK themselves!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Some of the Wright Park leaders who joined our action<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"Wright](\"https:\/\/tacomatenants.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Check-Delivery-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nThey also brought a petition signed by 30 union members. The petition makes the union’s position clear: tenants are collectively refusing to use Blackrock’s online portal until Daniel Casey agrees to meet and negotiate in good faith with the union.<\/strong>
Although the leasing office is supposed to open at 8:30am, not a single landlord or property manager was to be found on the scene. With no one available to receive their rent or respond to their demands, tenants recorded this video instead!<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n