<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I could be mistaken, but I seem to recall when I moved back to WA in 2013, the recording fee was around $79 for the first page. WOW. <div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 30, 2021, at 4:42 PM, Doug Schafer <schafer@pobox.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Wow, I just read in the
newspaper: "</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Document
recording fees vary by type of document, but the standard fee is
$103.50, so with the new surcharge, that fee will rise to $203.50"<br>
On 4/24 our legislature added $100 to the fee for recording
documents with the county Auditor/Recorder. I think it was about
$35 not that many years (or decades) ago.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1277&Year=2021">https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1277&Year=2021</a><br>
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Doug Schafer, in Tacoma<br>
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