Sequim Traps for the Unwary Buyer

? When I was practicing real estate law in Sequim I periodically saw clients with a fence line problem. In a rural area like this with some old barbed wire fences from 1947 on boundary lines, you might expect some of those old fences would not be precisely on a surveyed boundary line. Depending on

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Election Year Slows Home Buying

This election year has substantially slowed down home buying in the Sequim area (including Port Angeles and Port Townsend). A presidential election year typically has a brief negative impact on home buying in retirement areas, and Sequim and Port Townsend are major retirement areas for residents from all over the U.S. But this election year in particular has

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Digital Signatures on Real Estate Documents

Digital signatures have become the mainstay in signing real estate documents, at least for rural retirement areas like Sequim, Washington. Buyers come, look at homes, and either sign an offer while here or soon after with digital signatures when they arrive back home. Even after mutual acceptance there are documents that will need acknowledgement or

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Texas Floods Sending Buyers to Sequim

Texas floods wreaked havoc in the spring and now again in the fall of this year. This has become such a recurring nightmare for so many Texans, more Texans are moving to Sequim this year. We’ve always had a strong connection with Texas. The hot weather, the Texas Floods, and the tornadoes are driving people to

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Buyers Hire the First Real Estate Agent They Talk To?

Did you know the first real estate agent buyers talk to is the one they usually hire? A National Association of Realtors’ survey indicated that 85% of buyers hire the first real estate agent they talk to on the phone without any pre-qualification, without any interview, without any due diligence. Hard to believe? Buyers Hire First

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Few First Time Home Buyers in Sequim

There are very few first time home buyers in Sequim. The vast majority of buyers are retirees in their 50’s and 60’s, and they are rarely first time home buyers. This is an interesting demographic reality. Why doesn’t Sequim have a lot of first time home buyers? First Time Home Buyers are Rare The Sequim economy

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Port Angeles Buyers – A Gorgeous Water View High Bluff Lot

Is Port Angeles a great place to retire? Absolutely. Hear from a couple from Arizona who are just making the move here and recently purchased a beautiful waterfront lot. “We are ex-Washington residents who currently live in Arizona. We had been searching the Puget Sound area four years for a waterfront property to build a

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