<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Colleagues - </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">For this Friday, I want to share some useful tips as well as the frustration of my recent filing experience. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Facts - 3 parcels all being gifted to Person A by Person B, no debt, no consideration.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">One of the parcels recorded. Other two rejected - rejection reasons were NOT identical. To recap - three identical REETA (only changes were parcel, address, and valuation); three identical Gift Supplement Statements; two rejections for different reasons and ONE recorded on first try. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">After I finished banging my head - I wrote to the Recorder's office saying I don't know how to make your employees happy. Please help. Here is what I learned. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">#1 - I made the mistake of actually using the citation to the WAC 458-61a-201(6)(b)(i) - that was rejected because that is NOT an acceptable citation to the WAC.....I have to use the WAC as listed by the DOR on their approved list found at this link:   <a href="https://dor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/REETExemptions1-1-2023andAfter.xlsx" target="_blank">https://dor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/REETExemptions1-1-2023andAfter.xlsx</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The official WAC reference to the exemption is 458-61A-201(b)(1). The fact that this is not an actual citation....fine, forget (6) but there is no #1 - it is a little i. Alas, the head beating continues. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">#2 - The gift supplement has a question after you have checked the appropriate box. That question is - Has there been or will there be a refinance of the debt? YES or NO (check the box). According to Ms <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Priscilla Harper, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Fiscal Specialist III with the Recorders Office - they have just had training from the DOR that requires them to have an answer to this question.  The fact that there IS NO DEBT doesn't matter. This means that if you don't check this box you will stand a 66% chance of having the filing rejected (again, the one recorded on the first try didn't have the box checked)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">#3 - Finally - in case you have a vacant lot that has been used as a garden or just extra land, the appropriate drop down code is 91 - UNDEVELOPED LAND (land only). </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I actually sought this question out because I wasn't sure what they meant by undeveloped.....but given that this was the only item that dealt with land that had no structures showing, I guessed correctly (as verified through call to DOR before the other rejections). </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I share this in hopes that my migraine and subsequent battle may help others in their pursuits of Recording adventures!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Happy Friday to you,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Brent</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><spa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