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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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¶45 The MHLTA, like many statutes, serves more than one purpose. Little Mountain Estates Tenants Ass’n v. Little Mountain Estates MHC, LLC, 169 Wn.2d 265, 270, 236 P.3d 193 (2010). It protects tenants who require a stable, low-cost housing option, specifically including elderly and disabled individuals. Id. (citing RCW 59.22.010(2)). It also ensures that such housing exists in the first place by making it “economically feasible” to provide it—after all, if it were economically unfeasible to operate a mobile or manufactured home park where the MHLTA applies, few people would be able to benefit from its protections. Id. Both purposes could be severely undermined by making every specific provision of every MHLTA lease enforceable in perpetuity without the formality—particularly as applied to this case, acknowledged signatures—required for all other long-term encumbrances on real property.