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<p class="MsoNormal">The tax sale would eliminate any lien for unpaid homeowner association assessments. However, the purchaser at the tax sale would be obligated to pay future assessments as they come due and payable.
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [WSBARP] Tax Foreclosure (RCW 84.64.080) - 18 Years HOA Unpaid Liens - Lake Arrowhead Club v Looney<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I read Looney as holding that a lien to pay assessments survives, but a lien arising before the tax sale does not. 112 Wn.2d at 297. Am I missing something?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">From: Rob Rowley <<a href="mailto:rob@rowleylegal.com">rob@rowleylegal.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Subject: [WSBARP] Tax Foreclosure (RCW 84.64.080) - 18 Years HOA Unpaid Liens - Lake Arrowhead Club v Looney
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">May an HOA attempt to collect 18 years of unpaid HOA dues pursuant to a series of recorded claims of lien which
was recently foreclosed by the Treasurer for unpaid taxes?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<u>Lake Arrowhead Club v Looney</u> the liens would survive because they were properly recorded and authorized by the recorded HOA CCRs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Trying to find some authority for the proposition that the HOA is time-barred for at least some of the unpaid
HOA dues. From what I can tell from the chain of title the former owner probably never paid a single HOA dues in the 18 years of ownership.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">My client purchased at the recent tax sale. I think the HOA can collect six years. Never had a situation where
a longer period of unpaid dues? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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