April is Fair Housing Month!

Observed each April to commemorate the landmark 1968 Fair Housing Act in which U.S. law was established that prohibited discrimination in housing. The National Association of REALTORS® creates a toolkit/poster each year that you may print, use or distribute to promote the REALTOR® commitment to Fair Housing. You are authorized to print, use and distribute the Fair Housing Month Poster. It can be printed 18 x 24 or 9 x 12.

Show that your office supports equal opportunity in housing by displaying this declaration of following fair housing laws and your commitment to provide professional service with the REALTOR® Fair Housing Declaration.

I agree to:

  • Provide equal professional service without regard to the race, color, religion, gender (sex), disability (handicap), familial status, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity of any prospective client, customer, or of the residents of any community.
  • Keep informed about fair housing law and practices, improving my clients’ and customers’ opportunities and my business.
  • Develop advertising that indicates that everyone is welcome and no one is excluded;, expanding my client’s and customer’s opportunities to see, buy, or lease property.
  • Inform my clients and customers about their rights and responsibilities under the fair housing laws by providing brochures and other information.
  • Document my efforts to provide professional service, which will assist me in becoming a more responsive and successful REALTOR®.
  • Refuse to tolerate non-compliance.
  • Learn about those who are different from me, and celebrate those differences.
  • Take a positive approach to fair housing practices and aspire to follow the spirit as well as the letter of the law.
  • Develop and implement fair housing practices for my firm to carry out the spirit of this declaration.

Washington REALTORS® is also offering a series of free webinars to WR members! NAR is also offering a discounted “At Home With Diversity” application fee of $40 surrounding Fair Housing Month. Normally the application fee is $75. The discounted price will run through May 31st, 2021.

APR. 8 @ 10AM: Love Letters and More with Annie Fitzsimmons (WATCH THE RECORDING HERE)

APR. 13 @ 10AM: Assistance Animals with Marley Hochendoner (WATCH THE RECORDING HERE)

APR. 14 & 15 @ 9AM: At Home With Diversity with Margo Wheeler and Mark Kitabayashi (6.0 CE Hours)

APR. 29 @ 10AM: Implicit Bias, Why It Matters with Jerod Grant

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May 5, 2021: PACMLS Membership Meeting

MAY 5 @ 12PM-1:30PM

PACMLS Membership Meeting

2021 Legislative Recap

Want to know how the 2021 Legislative Session will impact you and your clients? Don’t miss this membership meeting! We will be joined by Washington REALTORS® Government Affairs Director Nathan Gorton who will be sharing legislative updates on:

  • How a State Capital Gains Tax Will Impact Real Estate
  • Any Relief In Sight for New Inventory
  • Landlord-Tenant Law Changes
  • Other Bills That Will Impact Real Estate

Grab your lunch and join the meeting on May 5th at:

https://bit.ly/PACMLSmm05052021

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Updates and Changes to zipForms Transactions

Check out the latest enhancements and fixes scheduled for zipForms Transactions from Lone Wolf! This month’s update includes a new feature that allows users to download signed documents in one-click, and a quick way to remove documents from a placeholder!

ENHANCEMENTS
1) Download signed documents in one click: we added a Retrieve Signed Documents button to the details popup of a signing in the E-Sign tab of a Transaction. With a single click, users can manually download signed documents that are less than 90 days old to the details popup of a signing. Note: currently, this is applicable to
DocuSign signatures only.
2) Easily remove documents from a placeholder: we added the ability to remove all documents from a placeholder containing a “stack” of previous versions by clicking on ‘Unfill Placeholder’.
3) New transactions copy alert: copying a transaction does not automatically update form versions and may result in the use of outdated forms. This is why we added a warning message that displays when a transaction is copied.

FIXES
1) Party information update: Corrected an issue where party information that was updated failed to automatically update in the transaction shares existing, and responsible party contact information in the Checklist tab of the transaction.
2) Placeholders fill: Corrected an issue where a translucent page appeared when users attempted to fill placeholders in a transaction, preventing them from taking further action on the page.
3) Password reset: Corrected an issue where users were unable to successfully reset their passwords using the Forgot Password function.
4) PDF Preview in Dashboard: Corrected an issue where users were unable to preview a PDF document from the Docs Need Approval tile in the Dashboard.
5) PDF document review and zipCommunity: Corrected an issue where users were able to see the zipCommunity and comment history functions when previewing a PDF document.
6) Notifications: Corrected an issue where the bell notification icon was missing from the header bar and users failed to receive notifications.
7) Transaction downloads: Corrected an issue where users were unable to download an exported transaction via an email link.
8) PDF document preview: Corrected an issue where users received an error message when attempting to preview a PDF document.
9) Back Office sync: Corrected an issue where updates to parties on a transaction that was copied and is synced to Lone Wolf Back Office via Lone Wolf Link, synced to the original transaction instead of the copy.
10) Transaction type admin control: Corrected an issue where administrator users were unable to control what transaction types users were able to create.
11) Forms access: Corrected an issue where agents that were logged in as transaction coordinator users were unable to access the forms library.
12) Document placeholder fill: Corrected an issue where users unable to fill placeholder documents with documents they uploaded.
13) Clause manager: Corrected an issue where users were unable to export clauses from the Clause Manager feature.

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