Truth About Real Estate–Somebody has to say it!: Six Tips for First-Time Homebuyers: A house is the biggest investment that most people will ever make. The decision to buy should not be taken lightly. Any time you buy a house…

Want to make your home more attractive to sell?  Try detail cleaning, like vacuuming out the central H&A closet…. a home that is well maintained and clean, attracts more buyer traffic.  But, it doesn’t stop there. Let’s look at remodeling value.  A newly designed kitchen & bath remodel are the most expensive remodel of a home. …

The Extension of the Mortgage Debt Forgiveness Tax Relief needed for the 2014 “lame duck” session of congress. My views are this… if a distressed homeowner is in a position of losing their primary home due to foreclosure – and can sell the home by means of an approved “short of the payoff”, from the lender/investors, (called a…

I specialize in land and homes for sale in six counties including McClain, Cleveland, Oklahoma, Grady, Garvin and Pottawatomie. I drive regularly to show property in many small towns, such as Purcell, Washington, Goldsby, Wayne, Dibble, Blanchard, Newcastle, Lexington, Noble, Wanette, and Maysville as well as Oklahoma City, Moore and Norman, OK. Norman, Oklahoma, home of…

Spending all day, and sometimes weeks with a seller/buyer… and then, all-of-the-sudden, they are gone?  It’s a frustrating and maddening part of real estate, when you have been called on by a buyer/seller… to make appointments, consult, show homes, and then never hear from then again?  No good byes, No “I’ve found another Realtor”, No “you…

Mortgage Insurance Premium Fee One of my customers was ready to make an offer on a home.  He was pre-approved with a lender, however… that’s all the lender did.  Just a pre-qualification.  Which means the lender pulled his credit score.  The buyer had a credit score above a 620, so… he received a Pre-Qualification Letter. Ready to…

Who Pays for What? I get this question a lot… who pays this cost?  Well, anything and everything is negotiable in a contract.  The standard Realtors contract fees are divided into “NORMAL AND CUSTOMARY” charges between a buyer and seller. So, if a seller is paying for both lenders and owner title insurance policy, (which is normally a buyers…

Where’s the Buyers?  I remember the commercial that said… Where’s the Beef? I know realtors work on marketing and selling their own listed properties…. (and there’s a lot listed these days)…. but, I sure have some nice listings and no one to show them to! So, if your in the mood to move to central Oklahoma……