[WSBARP] Buyer Relief from Trustee Error During Foreclosure

[Jared Hawkins]

Buyer purchases house at foreclosure sale and receives trustee's deed.  7-8 months later Buyer receives notice from Junior lien holder (Junior LH) that purports that Trustee failed to provide adequate notice to Junior LH (i.e., notice was sent to Lien Holder's previous attorney who had long since retired).  Junior LH asserts that the lien survived the sale of the property due to the lack of notice.   Junior LH has now commenced a foreclosure proceeding against Buyer to foreclose lienholder's interest in the junior lien.

I will certainly assert that Buyer is a bona fine purchaser under RCW 61.24.040.  But in the event that is not successful, I think its wise to assert a cross claim against the Trustee/Deed of Trust Beneficiary if errors did indeed occur.  Have any of you done that before?  And if so, do you have some tips you could share over the phone or could email to me?  If the lien did indeed survive the foreclosure then my client has been damaged, but I'm uncertain at this point the best cause of action(s) to capture those damages for my client.  Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Jared N. Hawkins, Attorney at Law
jared at hawklaw.biz<mailto:jared at hawklaw.biz>
Hawkins Law, PLLC
Phone 509-529-5175 / Fax 509-529-2564
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