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Washington to lose 26 weeks of long-term unemployment benefits  OLYMPIA – Washington state’s improving unemployment rate will reduce the maximum weeks of unemployment benefits from 99 to 73 for most eligible workers after April 21.  The Employment Security Department will soon mail notices to all...
04/03/2012
The CFPB Is Making Changes to the HUD-1 Settlement Statement - again... Imagine a combined Truth-in-Lending Statement and HUD 1 Settlement Statement.  That is precisely what the Consumer Financial Protection Board has been working on for a number of months.   If this is the first you have heard a...
03/23/2012
Earnest Money Notes Payable to Escrow - WHY? Please do not make your promissory notes for earnest money payable to escrow/title, make the Note payable to the seller.If the buyer backs out of the transaction and the seller seizes the note for compensation, what good will it do the seller if the No...
03/23/2012
                  February’s drop in unemployment rate may shorten unemployment benefits   OLYMPIA – Washington gained an estimated 4,200 jobs in February, adding to the state’s gradual climb up the employment ladder, according to the state’s Employment Security Department. The seasonally adjuste...
03/21/2012
I love free webinars as I have learned so much by taking the little time & effort to attend these. Agents, are you signed up?I have had a chance to work with some of the people at Market Leader more closely in the last few months. One of the things I am excited about is their training. They actua...
02/16/2012
Aviation Based High Schools? Aviation High School, located next to the Museum of Flight is the only aviation, college prep school in the Northwest.  According to an article written by Holly Smith Peterson at the Business Examiner on September 5th, one-third of all Boeing engineers will be eligibl...
10/25/2011
Are you Reading Your Short Sale Approval Letters Carefully? Several Banks now include an Arms Length Affidavit with their short sale approval letters which require the parties to certify "That the sale of the property is between parties who are unrelated and unaffiliated by family, marriage or co...
10/25/2011
WorkSource helping growers find orchard workers   OLYMPIA – With Washington’s apple harvest once again in full swing, local WorkSource centers are doing what they can to help growers find pickers. Currently, WorkSource centers are working to fill more than agricultural 1,000 job openings across C...
10/20/2011
It started with a request on Facebook for some assistance from Rhonda Gray, an agent that I had not yet met.  Sure, why not?  I had a couple of hours that I could spare that Wednesday morning and isn't the point of developing your business via on-line "marketing" on places like Facebook, to meet ...
09/20/2011
Revenue returns unclaimed property to a record number of claimants OLYMPIA – Sept. 13, 2011 – The Washington State Department of Revenue returned unclaimed property to a record 108,441 claimants in Fiscal Year 2011, thanks in part to a sharp increase in the number of businesses reporting unclaime...
09/13/2011
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