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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Josh,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Start with RCW 60.04.011(5) for the definition of improvement and RCW 60.08.080 for the frivolous lien procedure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Josh Grant<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 14, 2015 10:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> wsbar <wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] crazy contractor's lien<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">My client, a 83 year old widow, hired some neighborhood “friends”, one couple, to help her dispose of furniture and property in a home after her husband died. They worked a few
days, she paid them $2000, and later they wanted more, having “forgotten” the $2000... Then characterizing the $2000 as a gift.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> They recorded a contractor’s lien on the property for $8,500. It reads: “I did furnish the following labor and/or materials: 10 weeks – assisting, cleaning, packing, moving to
storage, yard work, rubish[sic] removal”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">They did record the lien within about a week of the last day they were on the property.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Home is assessed at $108,000 by Grant County.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> No one, of course, is a licensed contractor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> The form doesn’t refer to any particular statutory lien, however, it is on the form customarily used by contractors. (the footer on the lien form says NOVA LF 136 Claim of Lien
Pg2 (07-11). Not sure where they got it. They Hand wrote in the spaces that are not pre-printed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">I assume that a complaint for defamation of title and for quiet title will free up the lien so the widow can sell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Without doing research, I assume further that one cannot lien up real property after cleaning .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Any thoughts? Any other causes of action?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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