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Western Plaza, LLC v. Tison, 184 Wash. 2d 702 (2015)

Citation
Western Plaza, LLC v. Tison, 184 Wash. 2d 702 (2015)
Parent Document
Western Plaza, LLC v. Tison, 184 Wash. 2d 702 (2015)
Jurisdiction
Washington (state)
Effective Date
2015-11-25

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¶27 As these provisions show, the purpose of the MHLTA was to encourage long-term leases of at least a year or even longer. But Western Plaza ignores the differences between the two statutory schemes and simply urges us to apply the general statute of frauds to the MHLTA. Under this analysis, any lease running for more than one year would have to be acknowledged. Requiring acknowledgment does not advance the legislature’s intent to protect tenants through long-term leases—it is instead an additional burden that *717strips away the protections the legislature crafted for mobile home lot tenants.