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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">I just received a letter from a County Auditor who advised that an abbreviated legal description I used “is not accurate” citing RCW 65.04.045. I looked at
that statute and see that it was last amended in 2005. Notwithstanding using, what the county shows as an abbreviated legal on their Assessor’s website, hundreds of times since 2005, the Auditor now advises that what must be used is “the name of the Plat,
do not use Org. or Orig Add”. The statute reads” </span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> "abbreviated legal description
of the property" means lot, block, plat, or section, township, range, and quarter/quarter section,”.. The name of many of the Town “plats” in this area are shown as Original Addition to the Town of ______. Or “Railroad Addition to the Town of ______.” The
auditor goes on to say “The Assessor’s website should not be used to obtain property descriptions. If you need help with a legal description or an abbreviated legal description, please contact a title company or surveyor”. My guess is that some memo has
come from the State, possibly the Department of Revenue, Excise Tax section??? Because this isn’t a new statute. It’s not bad enough that the recording fee is now over $200 for the first page… but now we have to get a title report to record a simple gift
deed?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Anyone have any authority to counter the legal advice I have received
from an Auditor’s Office? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Josh</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#004080;mso-ligatures:none">Joshua F. Grant</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#004080;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><img width="166" height="34" style="width:1.725in;height:.3583in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D9EA43.33FB5CC0"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:#004080;mso-ligatures:none">P. O. Box 619<br>
Wilbur, WA 99185<br>
509 647 5578<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="color:#004080;mso-ligatures:none">jgrant@advocateslg.com</span></span></span><span style="color:#004080;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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