[WSBARP] Responsibility for maintaining retaining wall on property line

[Jon Fritzler]

Fellow listservees,

Wood retaining wall that is on the property line between two residential properties is beginning to fail and lean toward the downhill property.  Is it the sole responsibility of the owner of the uphill property to pay to have the wall repaired or replaced or do the owners share responsibility as they would with a fence?  Does it matter if the owner of the downhill property was the owner of said property when the wall was installed while the owner of the uphill property purchased the property after the wall was installed by the previous owner?

Jon M. Fritzler
Attorney at Law

11015 NE Fourth Plain Blvd., Suite D

Vancouver, WA 98662
Tel. 360.818.4431
Eml fritzlerlaw at outlook.com<mailto:fritzlerlaw at outlook.com>
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