Commentary, opinions, philosophical musings, practical tips, and occasional rantings of a full-time real estate web maven based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Specializing in country horse farms, ranches, and estate homes in Tulsa, Jenks, Bixby, Broken Arrow, Claremore, Collinsville, Coweta, Mounds, Sperry, Bristow, Beggs, Catoosa, Inola, Verdigris, Oologah, and Owasso. Tulsa , Rogers, Creek, Osage, Okmulgee, Mayes, Pawnee, Okfuskee, Washington, Wagoner, and Muskogee County, and other counties in Northeast Oklahoma. Topics discussed include interface between oil & gas industry and real estate interests of landowners, farm and ranch issues, and great restaurants and places to visit in Green Country.
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Is anyone out there in Active Rain land offering landman services to their sellers to help them acquire the mineral rights under their land? I have the expertise to do this and I think it would be even more valuable than home staging and other ancillary services that we offer to get the homes so...
09/14/2008
Horses are evacuated during hurricanes too. Let's help add more entries to the emergency layup directory being compiled by The Horse Gazette by contacting our horse friends and getting them to add entries at: http://www.horsegazette.com/emergency.htm#TX It may be too late to help horses affecte...
09/13/2008
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It's raining outside because Hurricane Ike (now downgraded to Tropical Storm Ike) is barreling its way into Oklahoma as I type. We are getting lots of rain here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Do you suppose Ike has come to Oklahoma to help us celebrate the 100th anniversary of Ike's Chili in Tulsa? Our St...
09/13/2008
Has anyone ever done a 1031 tax deferred exchange of mineral rights that have been severed from the surface estate? I am assuming that it is possible to do a 1031 exchange, because mineral rights are part of real estate, but I don't know anyone who has done it. Mineral rights are part of what is...
09/11/2008
If Sarah Palin auctioned the governor's plane on eBay, then there is a good chance that it was an investor who bought it as part of a 1031 Exchange of personal property. Tell me what personal property you have seen exchanged in a 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange. Can Western saddles be exchanged for En...
09/11/2008
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I heard that it is next to impossible to get a mortgage on a single-wide mobile home, so I sought advice around the office. One "seasoned" real estate agent told me she doesn't list them because "they aren't real estate." I understood the undertone better than the words. This is not the right a...
09/10/2008
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The coverage by the media of the presidential campaign has been nothing short of despicable. They are in a tizzy over Sarah Palin's setting a trend with her eye glasses. (I frankly have to admit that I like them.) They have replayed the jokes by a late night comedian making fun of Trig, Sarah Pa...
09/10/2008
I had a very pleasant experience at a closing in Poteau last week. The buyers were from Minnesota and after four months of looking, we found the perfect house on 15 acres in Wister, Oklahoma. There's a view of a mountain off every porch in all four directions. It's an awesome property. The hou...
09/07/2008
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I grew up in the Town of Southeast in Putnam County. It was called Southeast because it was the southeast township in the Philips Patent in New York State. We lived about two miles from the little village of Brewster, which was on the other side of Marvin's Mountain from our house. When we wal...
09/06/2008
The folks at Retaggr read my previous blog and responded immediately to my complaint. They have repaired the coding problem to my satisfaction. I have now inserted the new code back into my website. The interactive maps are working again alongside the tagging. Now I just have to figure out if...
09/05/2008