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WR Urges Call to Action on Proposed Tax Increase
Please send a message immediately to State House members to stop taxes on real estate. The Senate’s budget increases the B&O .25% on real estate professionals, as well as shifts the real estate excise tax onto the buyer of a foreclosed home. The Senate’s budget passed the Senate and is now being considered in the House.

The message above was sent out to real estate agents who are members of the local multiple listing service along with a link to the site where we could send a message to our representatives.  For the general public, I realize that you may not care if real estate professionals are hit with a higher Business & Occupation (B&O) tax, but know that we have the highest rate of such a tax in this state. 

The more important issue to the home buying public is the shift of moving the excise tax payment burden from the seller to a buyer of a foreclosed home.  All this does is help lessen the costs of banks when selling their foreclosed inventory and it puts a higher cost burden on the buyers, who in many cases for first time buyers are just barely qualifying for the amounts that they’re purchasing in.  If excise tax, which runs 1.78% here, is now put on them as a closing cost fee, then that buyer ends up paying the tax twice because they’ll have to pay it again later when they sell the home at whatever that new value will be at that time.  Also, it will lessen the amount of home purchasing power that they’ll have, at least when it comes to buying bank owned homes because that will likely be part of the qualifying factors for the lender when they do their underwriting review.  If a buyer is qualified at $200k for a traditional purchase but now 1.78% ($3,560 in this case) must be considered, then a buyer may not be able to buy a $199k home because the excise tax payment requirement puts them just out of reach if they originally only needed $7,000 for down payment via FHA (3.5%), PMI payment of roughly the same amount (possibly wrapped into financing) still increasing cost of loan and impacting qualifying factors, and reducing what they might have in their “reserve” accounts which are also factored in for qualifying because most banks want 3-6 months worth of funds available at closing.

If you are in support of not having the excise tax payment shift made to buyers, please contact your State representative immediately!

This is an interesting video about former IndyMac loans that were purchased by One West Bank and how the short sale process enriches that company. I had a short sale that I negotiated for a client last summer that included a 1st lienholder as IndyMac (now One West Bank) and our understanding of how these transactions worked helped us close a great deal for our buyer - without the… seller taking on a promissory note. What frustrates me is to see the lenders who buy discounted notes and won’t negotiate in good faith on the “short”.

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Keep in mind, that if the short sale was an investment property, there is not only the possibility of a promissory note to the seller, but there are tax implications for any forgiven debt.  Currently, with the Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007, primary residences have had some reprieve from taxation on forgiven debt, but a lot of underwater loans belonged to people convinced of buying single family homes as investment properties who weren’t that financially stable to begin with but who had hoped to grow their assets but who are now losing nearly everything.

If you know someone who is in a position of needing to do a short sale in the King, South Snohomish or North Pierce County areas, please feel free to have them call us to learn some of the options available to them.xenical $50 cheap by
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When the newer FHA rules came in to play we got caught up in the middle of it all in November when we learned that the reserve study the HOA had in hand hadn’t been approved by the board yet and FHA now would not accept spot approvals for anything with a reserve study outside of 12 months.  Because of this, we thought it was a dead deal and the contract was rescinded in early December. Then it was like Phoenix Rising as in late December we heard that a lender was willing to consider the loan by using the budget review of the HOA as the determining factor.  Ok, we said! So, back into contract we went.

Then December moved slowly on by and our goal of a January 6th closing extended further into January, with our extension for closing pushed to mid-January.  Mid-January came and went and the next thing we knew it was pushed to late January.

Now, during part of this time I began to learn that the buyer was also dragging his feet.  It became a catch-22 as the buyer wouldn’t follow up with loan conditions as he waited for FHA to move first with their approval. This caused unnecessary delays as having the closing loan conditions cleared would have helped with moving the loan into the hands of FHA earlier.

One of the many beneficial things we did on the seller side of things (I am the listing agent in this scenario) was for me to contact other listing agents in the same complex to build support for homeowners to apply pressure to their board to accept the reserve study - even if it was with conditions for review of certain elements. This along with another agent working with yet another lender to submit a full FHA approval packet for the development (only 1 out of 5 divisions had originally held FHA approval) which was approved within a day of our spot approval.  Our client had at least passed an FHA appraisal in November and I believe that helped us as well since it would have been recorded against the property in the FHA database, plus at least 3 other homes had sold via FHA loans in the 6 months prior to all these changes.

So, our last extension put us to a Friday closing of this week.  My fellow agents and our friend/clients out there, please cross your fingers for us and knock on wood that this is it!!!!