There has been a lot of confusion, anger and fear surrounding the new Distressed Property Law. I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon and do a critical analysis of the law, tearing apart each section.  The WA Assoc of Realtors has put their educational seminar online for free here for all of us.  Instead of all the ranting and raving taking place on other blogs attacking this law, feel free to pause and re-live these foreclosure rescue scam case studies from  2004, 2005, 2006  and 2007 which may help us better understand the reasons why we have this new law.

At the height of the bubble run up in 2005, there were hundreds of people attending foreclosure auctions, planning on making millions in real estate, usually after attending a get-rich-quick seminar.  Even today, the get-rich-quick hucksters are still luring in the same type of person who thinks there’s a magic diet pill that will help you lose those last ten pounds, and who thinks there’s still a way to make six figures with no experience, or in the case of this company, $2,000 per hour.

Readers on this blog and elsewhere have been highly critical of our state lawmakers for being reactionary and passing laws only after they would have done any good.  In this case, our legislature has tried to be pro-active and place boundaries around “distressed property transactions.