<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="">If the lien is properly indexed under the property owner’s name and/or the tax parcel number, then the title company should find it.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jennifer</div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div class="">Jennifer Johnson</div><div class="">Attorney | Title Officer</div><div class="">Wahkiakum Title & Escrow Co.</div><div class="">PO Box 39 - 68 Main Street</div><div class="">Cathlamet, WA 98612</div><div class="">(360) 795-3741</div><div class="">(360) 795-3001 (f)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">Serving Wahkiakum County’s Title & Escrow Needs For Over 100 Years</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">Agent for Old Republic National Title Insurance Company</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 29, 2016, at 3:01 PM, 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="">I have a HOA client who files notices of
liens when members do not pay assessments. The CC&R’s in this case do
not require such recording before a lien exists, but allows the HOA to file a
public “lien”. Is it not a best practice to include the legal description
on the notice of lien along with the parcel #? An auditor’s clerk advised
the client to simply remove the “exhibit “A” which contained a legal description
because “it wasn’t needed, the parcel # is enough and it saves $1.00”. Of
course now the document recorded makes reference to an exhibit “A” which doesn’t
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">But my concern with this legal advice is that a title company
may not pickup the notice, and if the lot is sold the nonpayment of liens might
not appear as a special exception and the sale closes without the payment to the
HOA, which is one of the main reasons for filing a notice of lien in the first
place.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">Other opinions?</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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