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		<title>New Laws Protect Tenants Whose Landlords are Foreclosed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New federal and state laws protect tenants whose landlords are foreclosed.  According to the article &#8220;Your landlord got foreclosed. Do you have to go?&#8221; on CNNMoney.com, some banks, real estate agents, and attorneys may be preying on  tenants not familiar with these laws. Note these law apply after the foreclosure auction, not when the landlord [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/eviction-after-foreclosure/new-laws-protect-tenants-whose-landlords-are-foreclosed/</link>
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		<title>Court of Appeals Upholds Late Fees in 3-Day Notice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our law firm was not involved in the lawsuit described in this article. Under Washington unlawful detainer law the landlord should not demand non-rent items on the three-day notice to pay rent or vacate.  This is because the tenants is entitled to at least 10 days to cure any non-rent breach of the lease. Some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/eviction-and-pre-litigation-notices/court-of-appeals-upholds-late-fees-in-3-day-notice/</link>
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		<title>Landlord Liable for Failure to Return Tenant Property</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our law firm was not involved in the lawsuit described in this article. In a recent opinion Division II of the Court of Appeals upheld a $76,275.55 verdict against a landlord and the property management firm it retained.[1] In addition, the Court of Appeals added attorney’s fees in an amount to be determined for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/washington-landlord-tenant-law/landlord-liable-for-failure-to-return-tenant-property/</link>
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		<title>Eviction Defenses After Foreclosure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New state and federal laws protect tenants from eviction after foreclosure.  There are also new laws that apply to former owners in possession of foreclosed property, in addition to tenants. It has come to our attention that some law firms are not following required procedures, depriving former owners of certain legal disclosures.  If you are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/eviction-after-foreclosure/eviction-defenses-after-foreclosure/</link>
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		<title>New Laws Protect Tenants When Landlord is Foreclosed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New federal as well as state laws protect tenants when the landlord’s property is foreclosed upon.   New federal law. Under the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 the purchaser at foreclosure takes the property subject to any unexpired lease.  The law also requires the foreclosure auction purchaser to give notice to vacate to any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/eviction-after-foreclosure/new-laws-protect-tenants-when-landlord-is-foreclosed/</link>
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		<title>Eviction Notices Must be Mailed from the Same County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Court of Appeals issued an unpublished opinion today on an unlawful detainer case in which one of the issues raised on appeal was that the declaration of service for the notice to pay rent or vacate did not indicate that the notice was mailed from the same county. Although as unpublished the opinion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/eviction-and-pre-litigation-notices/eviction-notices-must-be-mailed-from-the-same-county/</link>
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		<title>Landlord Liability for Injury due to Snow and Ice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington has adopted the Connecticut rule which requires landlords to keep common areas in a safe condition regardless whether or not the hazard is naturally occurring.  [1] The landlord is not the guarantor of tenants’ safety, however, and therefore a tenant will be required to show the landlord had actual or constructive knowledge of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/washington-landlord-tenant-law/landlord-liability-for-injury-due-to-snow-and-ice/</link>
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		<title>Court of Appeals Reverses Eviction on Improper Service of Eviction Notice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our law firm was not involved in the lawsuit described in this article. Yesterday the Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the tenant on an appeal from an eviction case and held that service of the notice to pay rent or vacate was improper. The landlord served only one copy of the notice to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/eviction-and-pre-litigation-notices/court-of-appeals-reverses-eviction-on-improper-service-of-eviction-notice/</link>
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		<title>Abandonment by Residential Tenants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abandonment must be clear and unequivocal.[1] The tenant need not expressly state an intention to abandon.  Such an intention may be implied by law.[2] “This inference may be drawn from anything which amounts to an agreement on the part of the tenant to abandon.”[3] The Residential Landlord-Tenant Act abolishes the common law right to distress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/washington-landlord-tenant-law/abandonment-by-residential-tenants/</link>
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		<title>Implied Warranties in Commercial Leases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Courts in some jurisdictions have extended the implied warranty of habitability to commercial leases to find an implied warranty of fitness for intended purpose.[1] Some commentators find the implied warranty of fitness analogous to the implied warranty of merchantability in the Uniform Commercial Code.[2] No Washington decision to date has found an implied warranty in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/commercial-landlord-tenant-law/implied-warranties-in-commercial-leases/</link>
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