As President of the Snohomish County Camano Association of Realtors, I'll be in Olympia, WA, the State Capital, on Wednesday, January 17. This is Washington REALTORS®' Legislative Day, when hundreds of REALTORS® will converge on the Capitol grounds in Olympia to discuss ways to improve housing opportunities with their legislators.
We have been very effective in the past, i.e., last year we defeated the raise in the State Excise tax that would have raised a tax that sellers pay at closing and is eventually passed down to the buyer. We were also successful in (temporarily) stopping the "Big Grab", preventing banks from entering the real estate market and creating a monopoly for the buyers.
Our mission is to provide you the opportunity of the "American Dream", home ownership. And a goal for our local association is to try to provide ways of affordable housing for our teachers, firefighters, law enforcement, so they can afford to live in the neighborhoods that they work in.
If you have any concerns you would like discussed while I am on The Hill, please email me at,
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