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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 31, 2017 9:37 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> WSBA Real Property Listserv <wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [WSBARP] Possibility of Reverter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">FWIW, a long while back I did some research on automatic reverters, and I recall that if the reverter is triggered,
the 10-year S/L on adverse possession begins to run (grantee is in open, hostile, etc. possession even though in theory title has reverted to grantor). So if one can show a violation of the determinable fee more than 10 years prior, it can be extinguished
via quiet title.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">That is in contrast to the determinable fee where the grantor instead holds a right of re-entry. With right of re-entry,
in theory the S/L can't start to run until the grantor actual asserts the right. In that case, the grantee's defense typically needs to be laches, when the right of re-entry was triggered decades before and grantor did nothing about it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>John McCrady<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 31, 2017 9:01 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> WSBA Real Property Listserv<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [WSBARP] Possibility of Reverter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="#993366" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#993366">In the fact situation given, I would continue to show the matter. I don’t want to pay the cost of a determination that the restriction has
been abandoned, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="#993366" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#993366">I am curious whether the title company is worried that a use by the current owners has triggered the reverter? It sounds like they are not
worried about a reverter already having taken place, but are only continuing to show the restriction?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Roger Hawkes<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 30, 2017 6:21 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> WSBA Real Property Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com">wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [WSBARP] Possibility of Reverter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Well done</span></font><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Wingdings"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">J</span></font><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
a big difference from current query and your case is the grantor was still alive in your case; although a reservation could be crafted to protect future generations too. I am curious to know what the title insurer gurus say about this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Roger Hawkes, WSBA 5173<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Rowley,
Rob [<a href="mailto:rob@rowleylegal.com">mailto:rob@rowleylegal.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 30, 2017 4:59 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> WSBA Real Property Listserv<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [WSBARP] Possibility of Reverter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">My one case that I got to argue at the Supreme Court dealt with the enforceability of fee simple determinable estates.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Roger Hawkes <<a href="mailto:Roger@law-hawks.com" target="_blank">Roger@law-hawks.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">I would seek other insurer’s inputs; failing a change, then advise Buyer that
it probably will impact a future sale or pledge by them; they can do a quiet title action, of course; and have the Sellers pay for cleaning it up?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">19909 Ballinger Way NE</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Marc Holmes [mailto:<a href="mailto:marc@holmeslawgroup.com" target="_blank">marc@holmeslawgroup.com</a>]
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 30, 2017 4:22 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> 'WSBA Real Property Listserv'<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [WSBARP] Possibility of Reverter</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I have a client purchasing a single family home and an old deed showed up on title with a restriction against
“carrying on a trade or business” on the property or else the property “immediately reverts to the grantors” who are long since dead. I’ve been to the property and there is nothing there to suggest it’s been used for anything but a typical residence since
the house was built in the 90s and the current owners have owned for more than 10 years. However, they have registered two LLCs to using this property’s address. When asked they said they have never operated a business on the property and that the LLCs are
holding companies they own for two completely unrelated multifamily properties run by an outside property manager. On the advice of their real estate agent, they signed and notarized a written statement to that effect.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The sellers will be conveying by warranty deed and the title company is excepting the old deed from title policy.
Whether the old deed was sufficient to create a defeasible fee is debatable but assuming that it was, what more, if anything, should I do to look out for the buyers’ interest? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Marc Holmes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Holmes Law Group PLLC<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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