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		<title>A Settlement Offer on &#8220;All Claims&#8221; Means All Claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reviewing the terms of a settlement offer in a residential construction dispute, the Washington State Supreme Court handed down a decision earlier this month holding that an offer of settlement of all claims means just that – all claims. This case arose from a $2,166 dispute over construction defects in a kitchen remodel. The case [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brettinlaw.com/blog/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Lenders to Start Offering Short Sales to Borrowers – Little Light Much Haze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rick Sharga is correct, the fed’s new short sale program won’t be the answer the government seeks, or is selling. Sharga, RealtyTrac’s chief economist, was commenting on the new Treasury Department rules going into effect on April 5th. (Short sales suggested as option to loan modification, The Seattle Times, Real Estate, Sunday, March 28, 2010) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brettinlaw.com/blog/?p=155</link>
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		<title>Mandatory Disclosures Now Required In All Washington State Commercial Real Estate Transactions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senate Bill 6749, mandating disclosures in commercial real estate transactions, was signed into law today by Governor Christine Gregoire. The bill passed the house and senate unopposed. The following analysis was prepared by non-partisan legislative staff for the use of legislative members in their deliberations. This analysis is not a part of the legislation nor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brettinlaw.com/blog/?p=148</link>
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		<title>Washington’s Proposed Personal Income Tax Rates Are Borderline Punitive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As most Washington residents now know, our legislature is proposing a first ever personal income tax to meet budget deficits (Senate Bill 6250). The tax will be imposed on all income of resident individuals, estates and trusts deriving income from Washington State. The proposed new rates look like this: Married, filing jointly: Not over $49,900 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brettinlaw.com/blog/?p=143</link>
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		<title>Anti-Flipping Rule Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Effective February 1, 2010, FHA has suspended the 90 day anti-flipping rule. The waiver is limited to a sale within the 90-day period if the property is acquired through foreclosure, and is effective for a period of one year, with regard to sales of properties acquired by mortgagees, whether sold directly by the mortgagees or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brettinlaw.com/blog/?p=140</link>
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		<title>Carpe diem – Sing cuckoo, sing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t have much chance to blog the last couple months. My resolution is to post more frequently this year. Where will the economy take us this year? That’s the million dollar question. The GNP grew to 5.5%. Manufactures are restocking shelves. Some sectors of the economy are showing signs of life. That’s the good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brettinlaw.com/blog/?p=130</link>
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		<title>Own-to-Rent: Where do we go from here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve heard of rent-to-own and you’ve heard of deed in lieu of foreclosure. Well, now we have own-to-rent, a program intended to help thousands of homeowners stay in their homes rather than losing them to foreclosure. Here’s the press release from Fannie Mae: WASHINGTON, DC &#8212; Fannie Mae (FNM/NYSE) is implementing the Deed for Lease™ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brettinlaw.com/blog/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Local Commercial Real Estate Loan Defaults – Still No Air</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Seattle Times reports today defaulted commercial loans are hitting local lender P&#038;Ls. The commercial loan default wave is barley news worthy at this point. A number of local banks have been hit with cease and desist letters from the Feds in recent weeks. What’s interesting is that Seattle-Bellevue-Everett metro had the nation’s highest delinquency [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brettinlaw.com/blog/?p=123</link>
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		<title>An Agreement to Agree is not an Agreement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month Division 2 of the Washington Court of Appeals upheld the proposition that a real estate purchase and sale agreement lacking specific terms is unenforceable. In 16th Street Investors LLC v. Morrison, (unpublished opinion) the court found the PSA did not create a legal obligation for the seller to sell, but rather an agreement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brettinlaw.com/blog/?p=120</link>
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		<title>Bits and Pieces for End of September</title>
		<description><![CDATA[September is almost over and I haven’t had the chance to post to the BLOG all month. There were several stories that I was working on this month that I didn’t get around to completing, including: Newsweek issued a warning about the impact the commercial real estate bubble will have on the greater economy. (Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brettinlaw.com/blog/?p=117</link>
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