[WSBARP] HB 1951 Seller Disclosure Statement

[Rod Harmon]

Michael:
Since you are a proponent of HB 1951, what motivated you to propose it and how do you see its elements as an improvement?

Rod Harmon
 
RODNEY T. HARMON
       Attorney at Law
         P.O. Box 1066
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     Tel:   (425) 402-7800
     Fax:  (425) 458-9096
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   rodharmon at msn.com




-----Original Message-----
From: wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com On Behalf Of Michael Brandt
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 1:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [WSBARP] HB 1951 Seller Disclosure Statement

All:

I, as the Chair of the Legislative Action Committee of the Washington Chapter of the Community Association Institute, worked on this proposed amendment to the Sellers Disclosure Statement to align it with other legislation we are working on that affects zoning issues in community association properties.  As many of you know, I mostly represent individual property owners in their disputes with associations.  As such, I would suggest digging into the issues a bit before launching into your campaign.  Thanks.

Michael D. Brandt
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-----Original Message-----
From: wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbarp-bounces at lists.wsbarppt.com> On Behalf Of Kary Krismer
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 12:12 PM
To: wsbarp at lists.wsbarppt.com
Subject: [WSBARP] HB 1951 Seller Disclosure Statement

I sent this out earlier today to the Google RP group, but forgot this group:

Washington Realtors put out a "Call to Action" on this bill, which requires sellers to answer yes/no to Form 17 questions they don't know. A Call to Action requests brokers contact their legislators.  I'm taking that as meaning that the bill is getting some traction.

I would suggest real estate attorneys and their regular clients do the same.  You can find your representatives in the House here: 
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[RANT] As an aside, I'm getting rather discouraged if not depressed by the quality of legislation that has been coming out of Olympia for the past 15 years or so.  My attention was first drawn to that with the first version of the Distressed Property Law, but after that I noticed piece after piece of legislation that was not necessarily a bad idea, but at a minimum just poorly drafted.  It's like inertia just carries these things through without all the fixes necessary.

But then there's this recent work on the Seller Disclosure statement. Last year they amended the thing twice, with neither bill recognizing the other.  One change was totally unnecessary (yet another notification the buyer gets that racial covenants are not enforceable) and one of questionable necessity but clearly poorly thought out (Internet provider where no service available and no service currently connected get the exact same answer). And now this year, where rather than deal intelligently with the problems Form 17 has had for years they introduce legislation that can only be described as ignorant.[/RANT]

Anyway, please consider doing what you can to let your legislators know about what a bad idea this legislation is.

-- 

Kary L. Krismer
206 723-2148


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