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Yardi's Price-Fixing Case Clears Summary Judgment, Heads to Discovery

October 20, 2026

A judge denied Yardi's request for summary judgment in the Washington state rent price-fixing class action. The case moves into the rest of discovery, and that means a look at landlords' own records, not just Yardi's algorithm.

This is where it stops being a Yardi problem and starts being a you problem. If your pricing process is "RMS says $1,845, we charge $1,845," you don't have a pricing strategy. You have a rubber stamp with extra steps. Discovery doesn't just ask what the software recommended. It asks what your regional did with that number, and whether anyone on your team ever pushed back on it, overrode it, or could explain why a unit was priced the way it was beyond "the dashboard told me to."

So do the unglamorous thing now, before a subpoena makes you do it under worse conditions. Get your leasing and revenue teams documenting actual reasoning, not just accepting outputs. Keep records of overrides, comp checks, market notes, anything that shows a human looked at the number and had a reason. If your current workflow produces zero paper trail of independent judgment, that's not efficiency. That's a liability with a nice UI.

Nobody knows yet how far discovery reaches or what it turns up. But "we never questioned the software" is not a sentence you want read back to you in a deposition.

Source: Multifamily Dive, October 19, 2026