<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">My only experience of this 1) was in Grays Harbor County and 2) came completely undone when the Owner reappeared out of the blue and had my client's ownership of the property revoked.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">That court said, in passing, that it had been "appropriate" for my client to dispose of the personal property left in the home since she had a good faith belief that she was now the owner.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Later, when it turned out the county had failed to do a diligent search for the missing owner and sold the property unlawfully, the lost personal property was put at the end of the list of damages the county owed the true owner.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Don't know if that helps, since it was more of an incidental comment during the proceedings and not what the case was about at all. (FWIW, I tried to argue that the county had done all they had to do, and the County threw me under the bus at the hearing - basically admitted that they had screwed the missing owner by selling the house to my client --- but that meant my client was also a victim. So she didn't get the house, but she got all her money back, some damages, and her attorney fees and costs.)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 1:13 PM Paul Neumiller <<a href="mailto:pneumiller@hotmail.com">pneumiller@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg7574587807007915175">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Neumiller<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 15, 2023 12:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Real Property Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com" target="_blank">wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBARP] Tax Foreclosure Sale and Personal Property<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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