Just read an interesting article related to mortgage requirements continuing to tighten in the Boston Globe. To keep this specific to Seattle Real Estate, Seattle (KC) isn't on this list, but Tacoma (PC) is. Here's a link to the article:
http://www.boston.com/realestate/news/b ... e_hom.html
Here's a link to Countrywide's "Risky Markets" List (also provided in the text of the article):
https://www.cwbc.com/ContentManaged/fil ... arkets.pdf