[WSBARP] Residential landlord-tenant early termination

[Denver Gant]

Listmates:

 

Has anyone dealt with a residential lease (the property is outside of
Seattle) that allows the landlord to terminate 60 days after the landlord
provides the tenant with 60 days’ notice of the landlord’s intent to sell
the property?  Does an early termination (five of slightly less than 12
months have passed at this point) violate the Residential Landlord-Tenant
Act?  

 

I have researched it, but cannot find a discussion about whether a
termination based upon intent to sell is valid in a residential lease.
The default rule seems to be that the purchaser of the property takes the
property subject to the lease.  But none of the discussions of the default
rule I found address or deal with a lease that contains an early
termination section.  I have to believe this situation has come up many
times and wonder whether anyone has any insight on this or a similar early
termination issue.

 

Thanks in advance (and apologies to KCBA real property listmates for the
cross-post).

 

Denver R. Gant 

Veris Law Group PLLC

1809 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1400

Seattle, WA 98101

Direct: (206) 829-8712

Main: (206) 829-9590

denver at verislawgroup.com

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