A 10 year treasury is close to 2% so a 3 cap in a market where lots of people have work and/or want to live and prices have historically gone up and rents are increasing then Portland is a good bet.

Treasury via his delegation of authority to the Internal Revenue Service.

in the world where ST treasury yield >= national cap rate --> holy cow RE is scary, better put into bonds :)since cap rate can't be pushed higher, then we have to wait til the interest rate eases, then we need to have CPI 2% again back to invest mode on. 

I haven't been following things, but my guess is that many of the MBS or CMBS are better risk/reward tradeoffs for fixed income investors right now than treasuries are.

Checks are made payable to the King County Treasury.Most people bring a cashier's check made payable to King County Treasury for the maximum amount they are willing to spend, whether they intend to buy just one parcel or bid on several.

A credit union is a banking institution, but, you might call the department of finance for thier definition, or read the statute definitions as they may be wanting coverage on the deposits by FDIC or the Dept of the Treasury.

If I were to sell the place and pull out my $290k in equity and reinvest in treasuries with 3% return I'd get ~9k/yr vs my current income of <7k/yr -- and I would obviously not dump it all in treasuries. 

An investor will never have problems leasing that building out and it could probably be considered as riskless as a treasury yield.

Not new to Real Estate but new to using the site I need help finding upcoming auctions for the IRS not ones that have already taken place, which is what I found when I went to Treasury Auctions, IRS

In 1997 (20 years ago), the 10-year treasury rate was 6.58%.