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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Craig,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The answer is that as a contractual right whatever remedy is provided to the holder of the right, including specific performance. Get back with me tomorrow. I should have one buried in my files.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=100 height=79 style='width:1.0416in;height:.8229in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3BBBA.0E5614F0" alt="cid:image001.jpg@01D349B3.13D1DA50"><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Nestor Gorfinkel, Attorney at Law <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Admitted to practice law in Washington & Florida <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Florida Civil-Law (International) Notary<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Puget Property Legal Services, PC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>11900 NE First Street Suite 300<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:black;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>Bellevue, WA 98005</span></b><b><span style='color:#385623'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Tel. (425) 961-0519<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Fax. (888) 837-0616<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:nestor@pplsweb.com"><b><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>nestor@pplsweb.com</span></b></a><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>ATTENTION - </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>This e-mail message and any attachment to this e-mail message may contain confidential information that is legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not review, retransmit, convert to hard copy, copy, use or disseminate this e-mail or any attachments to it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by telephone at the phone numbers provided herein and delete this message. Please note that if this e-mail message contains a forwarded message or is a reply to a prior message, some or all of the contents of this message or any attachments may not have been produced by the sender.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:#009900'>P</span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:#009900'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#009900'>Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Craig Blackmon<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 14, 2018 4:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> WSBA Real Property List Serve <wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Thoughts on a ROFR for real property<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>'Mates, I just learned - or perhaps relearned - that a right of first refusal does not create an interest in land. <i>Old Nat'l Bank of WA v. Arneson, </i>54 Wn.App. 717 (1989)<i>. </i><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If that is the case, then what is the remedy if the grantor conveys the property to a third party without giving the grantee the opportunity to exercise the right? The grantor would be liable for damages - but no specific performance absent an interest in the land, right?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Or am I missing something? <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If this is correct, then an ROFR should have a liquidated damages clause, right? Otherwise what would be the damages?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any insight you can share. And if anyone has an ROFR I can crib, that would be appreciated as well.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Craig <br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Craig Blackmon, Attorney at Law<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.seattlepropertylawyer.com/" target="_blank">Seattle Real Estate Lawyer</a></span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121'>92 Lenora St. (The Makers Space, a shared work environment) </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121'>Seattle WA 98121</span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121'>Office/Cell: </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>(206) 369-5949 Fax: (206) 770-7328 <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="https://twitter.com/LawyerBroker" target="_blank">@LawyerBroker</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'><a href="http://www.seattlepropertylawyer.com/blog?category=Buy+without+an+Agent" target="_blank">How to Buy Without an Agent</a> | <a href="http://www.seattlepropertylawyer.com/blog?category=Sell+FSBO" target="_blank">How to Sell FSBO</a> | <a href="http://www.seattlepropertylawyer.com/blog?category=Real+Estate+Glossary" target="_blank">RE Glossary</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication is a private, confidential electronic communication encompassed by 18 USC 2510. 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