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Hey Craig, totally spit balling here, but can’t you have a separate earnest money agreement referenced in the P&SA that provides how the parties agree to handle the earnest money irregardless of statutory or case law, etc?</div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Listmates, I understand the Earnest Money limitations contained in RCW 64. 04.005 and that earnest money outside of the 5% is controlled by case law. I have a very large developer that is offering my
client substantially more than the 5% as Earnest money and they have offered to waive the statutory limit. Typically I would just restructure it as an partially an option payment but the developer is pushing back. I thought I would consult the collective
before diving into case law. Any thoughts? Thanks!</span></p>
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