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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] &#8220;This inference may be drawn from anything which amounts to an agreement on the part of the tenant to abandon.&#8221;[3]
The Residential Landlord-Tenant Act abolishes the common law right to distress for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/washington-landlord-tenant-law/abandonment-by-residential-tenants/</link>
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		<title>Mailing Notices from the Same County</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Court of Appeals issued an unpublished opinion today on an unlawful detainer case in which the declaration of service for the notice to pay rent or vacate did not indicate that the notice was mailed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Although as unpublished the opinion cannot be cited as legal authority, it is interesting to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/eviction-and-pre-litigation-notices/mailing-notices-from-the-same-county/</link>
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		<title>New Laws Change Eviction After Foreclosure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two new laws change the process of evicting former owners and other occupants from property after trustee sale foreclosure.  One law is a federal law in effect and a new Washington law that goes into effect July 26, 2009.  The federal law expires at the end of 2012 . The new state law eviction procedures [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/eviction-after-foreclosure/new-laws-change-eviction-after-foreclosure/</link>
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		<title>Accepting Rent After Notice to Terminate Tenancy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent published Court of Appeals unlawful detainer case ruled on the issue of whether a landlord may accept rent after service of a notice terminating a month to month tenancy.[1] The court ruled that the landlord may accept such payments without waiving the notice.
After having been served a notice to terminate their month to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/washington-eviction-process/accepting-rent-after-notice-to-terminate-tenancy/</link>
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		<title>Recent Unpublished Opinion Finds Tenant at Sufferance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent unpublished opinion Division III of the Washington Court of Appeals held that despite the acceptance of rent the occupants of certain rental property were merely tenants at sufferance and subject to eviction via an unlawful detainer action.[1]
The defendants purchased a mobile home located in a mobile home park and began paying the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/washington-landlord-tenant-law/recent-unpublished-opinion-finds-tenant-at-sufferance/</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 commercial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/commercial-landlord-tenant-law/implied-warranties-in-commercial-leases/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s in the Mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mailing an eviction notice does not mean the landlord placing a copy in the tenant&#8217;s mailbox.  It means using the US Postal Service.

In situations in which mailing an eviction notice is required the landlord complies by &#8220;sendign a copy through the mail&#8221;.  RCW 59.12.040.  Clearly the landlord placing the notice in the mailbox is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/eviction-and-pre-litigation-notices/mail/</link>
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		<title>Tenant at Will</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  
A tenant at will is not defined by statute in Washington.  A tenancy at will is of indefinite duration, terminable at the will of either party without advance notice, and does not survive the death of either party.
Unlawful detainer was not a cause of action at common law (i.e. before such a statute [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/washington-landlord-tenant-law/tenant/</link>
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		<title>Proposed Filing Fee Increases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It may soon be more expensive to file an unlawful detainer action.
Proposed legislation was introduced on April 15 and a public hearing was held
on April 16 on a bill that will increase court filing fees.  For evictions the filing fee for a default would increase from $45 to $75, a 65% increase.
The increase is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/legislative-update/proposed-filing-fee-increases/</link>
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		<title>Transient Lodgers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weight of authority holds that a transient lodger is not a tenant, but a licensee.[1] The Residential Landlord Tenant Act (RLTA) excludes &#8220;[r]esidence in a hotel, motel, or other transient lodging&#8230;.&#8221; . [2] The RLTA is modeled on the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA).[3] The URLTA  excludes &#8220;transient occupancy in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://washingtonlandlordtenant.info/washington-landlord-tenant-law/transient-lodgers/</link>
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