Pushed to Shove
  Rob McKenna thinks I am a foreclosure rescue scam artist. I think he\\\\\\\'s nuts.

Dear Rob,

Yesterday, I addressed the issue of county officials determined to thwart my efforts to pay taxes.

Here’s an interesting letter from the Office of the Whatcom County Prosecuting Attorney to Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Bob Dick . . .

 

Continue reading “Thwarting Permitted?” »

The problem is epidemic, Rob, and it's a dirty little game Washington counties are playing with property owners in this tax sale business.

Dear Rob,

Have you wondered what’s going on here with all these county treasurers refusing to accept tax payments?

And why property owners with cashier’s checks in hand, standing at the counters of county treasurers throughout this state, are being turned away so treasurers can foreclose on their properties a day or two later?

Does that make sense to you or is it nothing short of bizarre?

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She’d one day fight a battle of her own, a survivor of breast cancer now going on five years.

Dear Rob,

I spoke with a really wonderful gal from California this evening. It was a lovely chat.

She’s 79, living on social security and just barely getting by on the $1,100 a month she brings in. Still, she has this amazing spirit about her I found remarkable.

And, she’s got quite a story.

Continue reading “My New Friend Mallia Marie” »

What about the 50 who never showed up to claim their funds? Are they better off, too?

Dear Rob,

The information I requested last week from county treasurers under the Public Records Act is beginning to trickle in.

So far, with about a quarter of the counties reporting, we’re up to about 50 overages that went unclaimed and were irrevocably transferred to county treasurers.

“Five-O”.

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Additionally, I require the assessed values of each parcel, the minimum bid amounts, the winning bid amounts, as well as the actual amount, in each case, of the escheated funds.

Dear Rob,

I think it’s time we get to the bottom of this “escheating” thing.

As you know, I’ve maintained all along it was county treasurers and prosecutors who put your office up to this “foreclosure rescue scheme” nonsense, and this exercise, I believe, will show why.

Should be interesting.

Continue reading “Your Escheating Heart” »