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<DIV><FONT size=4>I always tell my landlords that the sheriff will have a chat
and give them a deadline, and when they are still around that the landlord needs
to have a crew and a truck and be able to move it out in about an hour or so,
because that is all the longer the sheriff will stand around. Then we send
the notice to the last known address of Tenant.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=rob@hctc.com
href="mailto:rob@hctc.com">Rob Wilson-Hoss</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:19 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com
href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com">'WSBA Real Property Listserv'</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [WSBARP] Evictions & Vehicles</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif"'>Well, it isn't
real property, but others may know more than I about that. What I do know is
that this statute is overdue for a serious overhaul. There is a proposed
amendment before the Legislature but it only gets about a tenth of the way
towards solving the problem. Landlords have more juice in Olympia than tenants,
apparently. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif"'>Sheriff's
departments are really challenged by this statute, and I don't blame them. Much
better to find another way to deal with the stuff, such as the statutory option.
It may be more expensive for the landlord, but dumping the junk on the street is
just bad in every way. Your neighbors will despise you, the Sheriff's department
will fight you any way it can, and your karma will be dramatically violated.
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif"'>By the way, if
this is in a development with covenants, there may be a weird twist. In most
such developments, the public streets are really only rights of way over the
lots, which each extend to the middle of the street. So, if the covenants
prohibit dumping rubbish or trash on a lot, or nuisances in general, or noxious
or offensive things on lots, then in actuality, if the landlord is dumping this
stuff on the nearest public property, and we assume for the sake of argument
that the right of way is public property, then if the landlord dumps the stuff
on the nearest public property, he or she is dumping it on his own lot (the part
that is overlain by the public right of way, but still part of his own lot) and
in violation of the covenants. I have made this argument successfully, against a
landlord who really deserved to be "corrected."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman","serif"'>Robert D.
Wilson-Hoss <BR>Hoss & Wilson-Hoss, LLP <BR>236 West Birch Street
<BR>Shelton, WA 98584 <BR>360 426-2999<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<B>On Behalf Of </B>Paul Neumiller<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 18, 2017
10:25 AM<BR><B>To:</B> wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [WSBARP]
Evictions & Vehicles<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>After finally working the issues out with city and county
officials, I have got them to back off and not arrest or fine my landlord
clients for moving the tenant’s personal property to the nearest public property
(they tried to charge littering and illegal dumping of garbage.) RCW 59.18.312
says, in part, “If the tenant or the tenant's representative objects to the
storage of the property or the landlord elects not to store the property because
the tenant has not served a written request on the landlord to do so, the
property shall be deposited upon the nearest public property and may not be
stored by the landlord.…”) BUT, the hold out are the evicting sheriffs who
says that if my landlord client moves (or drags) a tenant’s vehicle to the
sidewalk and street, they’ll charge the landlord (“because we’ll know who moved
it there”). <o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Before I move up the chain of command for my local sheriff
and point out RCW 59.18.312, I was wondering if any of you had the same problem
and how you resolved it. Do you agree that a tenant’s vehicle that is left
on the premises after the execution of a writ of restitution is considered the
tenant’s “personal property” and thus can be moved “to the nearest public
property” under RCW 59.18.312? Thanks for your input.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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