<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If the covenants provide for a lien for unpaid assessments, there is no obligation to continuously record liens with the county. I think you can foreclose and include the 2016 annual assessment amount.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Homeowner associations can charge late fees pursuant to RCW 64.38.020(11) unless otherwise provided in the governing documents. However, the wording in the recorded lien itself isn’t very good and suggests that the Association isn’t going to charge late fees after 2015. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Patrick McDonald<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 17, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Josh Grant <<a href="mailto:jgrant@ACCIMA.COM" class="">jgrant@ACCIMA.COM</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">My client is a HOA that recorded a lien for nonpayment of
annual assessments for years in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Not sure if
some of the earlier years’ assessments were paid, but 2015 was definitely not
paid. Now we have 2016 unpaid as well. I am getting ready to
judicially foreclose liens and I thought I would have to record a new lien for
the 2016 assessment before I can foreclose based on the 2016
assessment.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">My client thinks the following language in the CC&R’s
prevents us from having to file a lien each year, once we have filed one of
them, or at least once we file one and some portion of it remains
unpaid:</font></div>
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<div class=""> <font size="4" class="">“Any annual... assessments, together with
interest, costs, collection costs, and reasonable attorney's fees... shall be a
continuing lien on the lot against which such assessment is made... The board
shall have the right to publicly record a lien against title to a Lot evidencing
the existence of this continuing lien.... The Board of Directors... may sue the
Lot Owner personally obligated to pay and/or foreclose a lien against the Lot in
the same manner as a mortgage of real property....”</font></div>
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<div class=""> <font size="4" class="">Also, the lien itself states:
“Principal Amount to Date for Which the Is [sic] Lien Claimed: $15000
including: and at this point the 2013, 2014, and 2015 lien amounts are
listed] and then it reads “Plus continuing annual dues”.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">Another issue is that the lien recites an added amount:
“$189.00 Late Fees owing on Annual Dues”, however, I don’t see any provision for
charging late fees in the CC&R’s.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">Anyone have an opinion on whether we can tack on the 2016
assessment to our lien foreclosure action without recording a new lien? and on
whether we can require late fees be paid?</font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">Josh</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Joshua F.
Grant, PS<br class="">Attorney at Law<br class="">P. O. Box 619<br class="">Wilbur, WA 99185<br class="">tel 509 647
5578<br class="">fax 509 647 2734<br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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