[WSBARP] [External Email] Re: REETA Gripe

Thu Jul 14 11:56:05 PDT 2022

Sorry gang.  Have to chime in with my recent problem in King County.  I believe that we were rejected 10 or 11 times.  Same document.  No I won't mention all of the rejections.  Just the most nutty.

The document was a release of claims.  Long story as to why we were recording it.  Why was it rejected first?  Because we put in "N/A" in the section about document to be released.  But we were not releasing a prior recorded document.  We were rejected because they said if it says release in the title, then you have to put a recording number of another document in that section.  Period.  No exceptions.  We were so dumbfounded that we just resent it in as is.  Rejected for the same reason.  We called and asked about it and explained what we were doing.  Same response.  We actually asked if they read the document and they said no they do not.  So we resubmitted it by whiting out the word release in the title.

So later, same document, we got rejected because the print on the last page of the exhibit attached to the release was illegible to them.  It wasn't super sharp but you could read it.  Nope.  And remember this was being rejected by the same people who said they never read the document.  We tried to re-jigger the font size but that caused margin problems so we got rejected for that.  We finally just removed the offending page.

Sigh.

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But just think how empowered it made the clerk feel that they have the ability to make your life miserable.

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Dear Listmates:

I just submitted a quitclaim deed to the King County Recorder with a REETA on which I claimed a gift exemption under WAC 458-61A-201 (gift but grantor continues to pay debt).  Here is what I put on the excise tax affidavit:
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I put the 2.B.2. in brackets because it does not represent a section/subsection of the WAC, but I knew they wanted a reference to the Supplemental Statement there anyway.

King County rejected the recording with the following explanation:

EXCISE SECTION 7 THE SEUBSECTION IS IN THE INCORRECT FORMAT. DID YOU MEAN WAC 458-61A-201(B2)?

Really?  Incorrect format?  The Supplemental Statement section/subsection/paragraph is clearly "2.B.2." and not "(B2)."  Even so, how could someone misinterpret 2.B.2.?  This is a person who rejected my submission, not a computer algorithm.

The real issue here is that there is no writing that lays out the specific format that is required on the REETA.  Section 7 of the REETA clearly says "WAC number (section/subsection)."  It does not say WAC number (section/subsection) and paragraph number from the Supplemental Statement in the following format: (subsection paragraph) (no section or periods or spaces between subsection and paragraph)."

Does anyone know of any written direction from the King County Recorder regarding how to annotate a REETA?

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