<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Except that the commercial landlord has a statutory lien against the personal property for two months rent which allows him/her to retain posession for purposes of foreclosing the lien.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px"><div class="gmail-col-csm-6 gmail-col-csm-pull-6" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:699.672px"><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:5px">RCW 60.72.010</h4></div></div><div class="gmail-row gmail-clearfix" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px"><div class="gmail-col-csm-12" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:1399.34px"><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:5px">Liens created—Priority—Extent—Exceptions.</h4></div></div><div id="gmail-contentWrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"open sans",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;text-indent:0.25in;margin-left:0in">Any person to whom rent may be due, his or her executors, administrators, or assigns, shall have a lien for such rent upon personal property which has been used or kept on the rented premises by the tenant, except property of third persons delivered to or left with the tenant for storage, repair, manufacture, or sale, or under conditional bills of sale duly filed, and such property as is exempt from execution by law. Such liens for rent shall be paramount to, and have preference over, all other liens except liens for taxes, general and special liens of labor, and liens of mortgages duly recorded prior to the tenancy. Such liens shall not be for more than two months' rent due, except that a lien for up to four months' rent due may be established when the tenant is renting a mobile home lot in a mobile home park as defined in RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=59.20.030" class="gmail-ui-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(125,171,138);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none">59.20.030</a>. No lien may be enforced for any rent or any installment thereof which has been due for more than two months at the time of the commencement of an action to foreclose such liens, except that a lien may be enforced for rent due for up to four months at the time of the commencement of an action to foreclose the lien when the tenant is renting a mobile home lot in a mobile home park as defined in RCW <a href="http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=59.20.030" class="gmail-ui-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(125,171,138);font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none">59.20.030</a>. No writing or recording shall be necessary to create such lien; and if such property be removed from the rented premises and not returned to the owner, agent, executor, administrator, or assign, the lien shall continue and be a superior lien on the property so removed for ten days from the date of its removal, and the lien may be enforced against the property wherever found. In the event the property contained in the rented premises be destroyed by fire or other elements, the lien shall extend to any money that may be received by the tenant as indemnity for the destruction of the property, nor shall the lien be lost by the sale of the property, except merchandise sold in the usual course of trade or to purchasers without notice of the tenancy. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to, nor shall it be enforced against, the property of tenants in dwelling houses or apartments or any other place that is used exclusively as a home or residence of the tenant and his or her family.</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 3:19 PM, HOWARD HERMAN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hhherman2@comcast.net" target="_blank">hhherman2@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-1939881583818586262WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">It appears to me that there is a conversion of the remaining property by the landlord through the actions of his agent, the sheriff. The tenant has been deprived access and of possession of his goods and the landlord has possession. See </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Martin v. Sikes, 38 Wn.2d 274, 229 P.2d 546 (Wash. 1951)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Howard Herman</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_-1939881583818586262__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></a></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> <a href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com" target="_blank">wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.<wbr>com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com" target="_blank">wsbarp-bounces@lists.<wbr>wsbarppt.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gregory L. Gilday<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 29, 2016 8:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com" target="_blank">wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Storage of Personal Property after Commercial Eviction<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Tried to send this yesterday, but it doesn't look like it went through. I apologize if it comes through twice. <br><br>Commercial tenant was evicted and was removed by the Sheriff under the Writ of Restitution. Unfortunately, the Sheriff wouldn't let the landlord move all of the remaining personal property to the nearest public right of way, so there is still a lot of stuff left inside the building. I'm not seeing anything in 59.12 that addresses this issue and haven't been able to find any case law that seems to give a good indication on what should be done to get rid of the stuff or what the landlord should do. Should landlord mirror what would be required under 59.18, or is there a simpler (faster) way? Assume the lease is silent on the matter. <br><br>Thank you in advance for any assistance. <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric ideograph-other">-- <br><br><span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Very Truly Yours,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Gregory L. Gilday <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Law Office of Cole & Gilday, P.C. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">10101 - 270th St. NW <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">P.O. 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