People around the county had an extra bit of stress added to the already stressful event of moving - the courthouse couldn’t record any transactions! Starting on Friday, the Whatcom County Courthouse would not record any purchase or sale transaction due to problems with their computer system. That left a lot of people who were supposed to move over the weekend in a difficult position. In order for funds to change hands, legal ownership of the property has to be changed (this is the part that is done at the courthouse). So, with no funds changing hands, and no change in ownership, people could not move into their new homes.

To make matters worse, the system was still down yesterday and this morning. The county finally started to manually record transactions this afternoon - much to the delight of many stressed out buyers and sellers!