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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 24, 2020 11:22:52 AM<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">My understanding is that utilities will expressly and emphatically deny any request to shut off utilities for squatters. So these proposals are usually dead on arrival from a mere practical point.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jon Fritzler<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 24, 2020 10:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Shutting off utilities to decedent's former residence that is occupied by non-tenant</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi Nick,</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We have already made an offer of “Cash for Keys” to the girlfriend but she has not taken us up on it thus far.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I agree that shutting off the utilities is a bad strategy but my client nonetheless wanted to know if he could do it as a last resort. I will advise him against it.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">
wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a> <<a href="mailto:wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nicholas Pleasants<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBAPT] Shutting off utilities to decedent's former residence that is occupied by non-tenant</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Hi Jon,</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">We had an e-mail thread about this on July 1. I advised you in that e-mail thread that the holdover girlfriend is considered a “tenant at will” or “tenant at sufferance” entitled to protections of Chs. 59.12 and 59.18, RCW.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">I suppose your question now is whether she has protections under Ch. 59.20 RCW. I would argue yes, under the same legal principles.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Shutting off utilities to any building that is occupied, whether by “squatters” or otherwise, is inhumane, and terribly disfavored under Title 59. That is a bad strategy.</p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Maybe this is a situation where a “Cash for Keys” strategy is appropriate. The PR can consider paying the girlfriend a reasonable sum as a relocation incentive to get her to vacate. That would be my recommendation.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Nick</p>
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<b>Reply-To: </b>WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 9:44 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[WSBAPT] Shutting off utilities to decedent's former residence that is occupied by non-tenant</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Decedent’s mobile home continues to be occupied by his girlfriend, who was not a tenant as she was not paying rent and who has no claim to the property as an heir or beneficiary.
I represent the Personal Representative who intends to sell the mobile home. We gave a 60-day notice to terminate occupancy pursuant to Proclamation 20-19.2. Can the PR shut off the water and electricity to the mobile home in the meantime? If not, how about
at the expiration of the 60-day notice if the girlfriend has not vacated?</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sincerely,<br>
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PO Box 61451<br>
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