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    • tj: I would like free healthcare for everyone, free college and state or government sponsored daycare and old age homes. Yes, I would be prepared to pay for it,...
    • Kary L. Krismer: Jillayne emailed me the letter regarding the excise tax issue. I’ve only spent about 10 minutes on this, but here are my initial impressions:...
    • Kary L. Krismer: Actually, cram-down means forcing a plan on a dissenting group of creditors. In practice though it’s come to mean what Jillayne indicated....
    • ARDELL: Any news on not taxing people on the shortfall?
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    • Tim: Funny you post this. Lynlee just grabbed my daughter and headed out the door to head down to the Snohomish bridge in downtown Snohomish to check out the river....
    • Kary L. Krismer: We had a reappraisal last year (I think) on some property on 10th Ave at the north end of Broadway in Seattle. Not anywhere near a river. The one...
  • Top 10 Reasons NOW is the time to buy (43)
    • ARDELL: That’s a little steep. Maybe buy an FHA down to the conventional rate and the conventional rate down to 4.5%?
    • Rhonda Porter: Ardell, ballpark–around 2.75% points based on a quick glance on some rate sheets from this afternoon. (Tomorrow morning, when markets reopen, this...
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    • leanne finlay: This sounds like a big, expensive, backwards step to me. I think lenders do want assurance that the appraiser is qualified, and having a clearing house...
  • Start 2009 by recognizing the unrecognized (11)
    • Jillayne Schlicke: by doing lots of research on the L.O. before selecting them. Just a simple friends/family blind referral isn’t good enough because the...

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