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<p class="MsoNormal">I can’t help you with market value but 1) odds are the mobile home is already considered real property by whatever county it is in. Check the tax records. 2) Title elimination is the difference between a Title Company being willing to
insure it as part of the transaction and not. So, in that sense, what a buyer is willing to pay for the totality is often greater than what they will pay for a used mobile home that can’t be insured and vacant land.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is the provision that the Auditor uses to consider it real property even if the title has not been eliminated:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">RCW 84.04.090<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Real property."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The term "real property" for the purposes of taxation shall be held and construed to mean and include the land itself, whether laid out in town lots or otherwise, and all buildings, structures or improvements or other fixtures of whatsoever
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property which the law defines or the courts may interpret, declare and hold to be real property under the letter, spirit, intent and meaning of the law for the purposes of taxation.
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">The term real property shall also include a mobile home which has substantially lost its identity as a mobile unit by virtue of its being permanently fixed in location upon land owned or leased by the owner
of the mobile home and placed on a permanent foundation (posts or blocks) with fixed pipe connections with sewer, water, or other utilities</span>: PROVIDED, That a mobile home located on land leased by the owner of the mobile home shall be subject to the
personal property provisions of chapter 84.56 RCW and RCW 84.60.040.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Auditors I have spoken with say that the fact that the title remains at DOL is more an administrative issue between agencies. No one from the County ever sends anything to DOL stating ‘we now consider this real property’ so it exists
in some sort of limbo.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rich Holland<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com [mailto:wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric Nelsen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 23, 2017 1:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Real Property listserve (wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com) <wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Mobile home expert?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone know of an attorney or real estate agent who deals with mobile homes and could give me a couple minutes' time to discuss market value, and how it's affected by the mobile home title being eliminated?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Eric C. Nelsen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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