AVERY COOPER:  The owners of three apartment buildings in Tacoma are selling. Tenants are worried that the new owners might force them out. That's why they decided to form their own tenant union. NWPB's Lauren Gallup reports.
LAUREN GALLUP: The sale isn’t final, but it’s in the works that BlackRock Communities NW will soon own three older apartment buildings near Wright Park. 
Tenants at the Hillcrest, Dreher and Brown apartments are calling their collective the Wright Park Tenant Union. 
Bill Schlanbusch [schlawn-bush] has lived in one of the buildings for 14 years. 
BILL SCHLANBUSCH: “ It doesn't seem unreasonable for us to just ask the new owners — BlackRock — to take us seriously, wonder what it would be like if they were in our place, and how they would like to be treated.” 
GALLUP: Tenants want to make sure they won’t be evicted if the new owners want to renovate the older buildings.
Daniel Casey is the owner of BlackRock Communities NW (Northwest). In an email, Casey wrote that he didn’t think it would be appropriate for him to address the organizing efforts publicly before the sale goes through.
In Tacoma, I’m Lauren Gallup.