Wash. Admin. Code § 308-124D-220
The term "office" in RCW 18.85.180 for a broker actively licensed in another jurisdiction in which the broker's headquarter office is located shall mean the Washington location where trust account and transaction records are maintained. Such records are required to be maintained for three years. The trust account and transaction records shall be open and accessible to representatives of the department of licensing. The parties to the transaction shall have access to the transaction records prepared or retained for the requesting party.
A broker actively licensed in another jurisdiction seeking licensure in Washington, whose headquarter office is located in that other jurisdiction, shall notify the department of the location address where the records are maintained in the state of Washington and shall include this address with the headquarter's address on the license application.
The Washington license shall be posted at the location where the records are being maintained.
Within thirty days after mailing of the notice of audit, the broker shall come to the department's office, after making an appointment, in the geographic location (Seattle or Olympia) nearest to the location of the records to sign the audit report.
If a real estate licensee actively licensed in another jurisdiction, whose headquarter office is located in that other jurisdiction, has obtained a Washington real estate license through a license recognition agreement, that licensee may maintain required Washington real estate transaction records in their out-of-state jurisdiction and with the out-of-state broker to whom they are licensed, providing it is allowed for in the license recognition agreement.
Wash. Admin. Code § 308-124D-220
Statutory Authority: RCW 18.85.040 and 18.85.041. WSR 10-06-078, § 308-124D-220, filed 3/1/10, effective 7/1/10.