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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060">I would not publicly disagree with the fine personnel at the county.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy">But I can copy the statute. The State Legislature has actually answered that manufactured home becoming real property question fairly clearly in RCW chapter 65.20.
<i>See </i><a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=65.20.030">RCW 65.30.030</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:white">The manufactured home shall not be real property in any form, including fixture law, unless the title is eliminated under this chapter.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060">Of course that does not affect the Treasurer:
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">RCW 65.20.910:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect the taxation of manufactured homes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Thursday, May 19, 2016 11:37 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Once physically affixed a mobile home
<i><u>is </u></i>real estate. <span style="color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">According to Excise, because the mobile has become “real estate” by being affixed and now taxed as such (this latter part is critical), it is real estate already regardless
of the existence of a title with DOL. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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