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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Long story but essentially: family relative (borderline hoarder) lives in owner’s residence rent-free for years. Relative now moves out (and
moves in with new rich husband) and locks are changed a couple of months ago. But, relative leaves a ton of stuff in residence and constantly delays in moving stuff. Client’s patience is up. This doesn’t seem to be a basic bailment situation under the WA
UCC (Chapter 62A.7) (unless you all say otherwise.) Even though residence owner never brought a UD action, can (should?) the owner follow the procedure set forth in RCW59.18.310(2) regarding abandoned stuff? Client is willing to follow RCW 59.18.310 and
hire people to move stuff to storage and then dumpster it all after the 45-day notice period is up.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">My problem is that this subsection starts with “In the event of such abandonment of tenancy and an accompanying default in the payment of rent
by the tenant,” the LL may follow the abandonment procedure. Since the residence was occupied rent-free, we have no “default in the payment of rent.” If a tenant’s “abandonment” doesn’t work, what does work??? Client needs to stay legal (remember, it’s
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