They have never claimed "his" property as a rental on their taxes nor had any type of formal lease.

The corporate veil or maintaining the corporate formalities is a key part of maintaining the limited liability through your LLC.

The lengthy proceedure to get three years later to have to file a formal Foreclosure etc. does not interest most people to go through the hassle.

I think Chad Carson is the scheduled speaker (formal meeting starts at 6:30 pm).

If you do not separate the LLC money from your personal money, if you do not follow required procedures and formalities, if you're generally sloppy (and that describes the majority of LLC owners) - then it does not matter who creates your LLC.

Has a written formal business plan.

In the instance of Power of Sale, the lender  can typically force the sale of the property without taking possession of the property.Conversely, if the property is in a jurisdiction where judicial foreclosure is the avenue, when the lender goes to court to gain possession of the property, the borrower is relieved of their obligations to the loan in exchange for surrendering the property.  

I don’t know if WA foreclosures are judicial, which take longer, or non judicial, usually 60 days or less.As for county records, most are online.  

.* Call the State licensing board and file a formal complaint.

We signed the lease last week and were waiting to conduct the formal walkthrough till today.