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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">To follow up on the great lively discussion last week between very wise attorneys….I’m linking below a recent Division II case (June 16, 2015 - unpublished of course) which gives a great overview of the duties and responsibilities of a landlord and tenant under the RLTA, common law, tort liability and the tension between the two.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(I absolutely love Google Scholar Alerts)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Scholar Alert: [ "rcw 59.18" ]; Case law</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p><h3 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;max-width:44.5em"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11841555971092621814&hl=en&lr=lang_en&as_sdt=6,48&as_vis=1&oi=scholaralrt"><span style="color:#1a0dab">FIGURACION v. REMBRANDT REALTY TRUST</span></a></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#006621">Wash: Court of Appeals, 2nd Div., 2015</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">...</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> Under the RLTA, Rembrandt must keep "common areas reasonably clean, sanitary, and safe<br>from defects increasing the hazards of fire or accident." <b>RCW</b> <b>59.18</b>.060(3). 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All other contact information remains the same.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><img width="86" height="130" src="cid:image008.jpg@01D0AD8B.5E710930" align="left" hspace="12"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Robert R. Rowley</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> | Attorney at Law</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">7 S. 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