The picture to the left is the reason why Mona Lisa has her enigmatic smile. I believe this was an earlier portrait that Da Vinci painted before the famous one. Of course I am just kidding as you all figured out. Actually this is one of the many tongue in cheek pictures in a quaint Italian Hotel
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08/21/2017
When I am in Oklahoma City our day starts with gratitude, hydration, and our moments of solitude before our work day starts. Throw in a little exercise and we already feel productive. In Jupiter Florida at our second home it is a little different. We don't need the meditation as much as we need t
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08/20/2017
Charlene and I are in Jupiter Florida at our second home and looking forward to eating at our favorite Italian restaurant in Jupiter, Casa Mia off Indiantown Road west of US 1. It is a neighborhood cafe place where when i get to go food I see the same folks at the bar all talking to each other ev
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08/19/2017
When I advise investors who want to buy Oklahoma City real estate investment property I always ask a question, what is your exit strategy? I know that a few times I will get an answer but mostly it is what do you mean? What I mean is where do you want to end up, and what happens if you need to se
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08/18/2017
Since 2004 Oklahoma City real estate investors have come from all over the world and up to 2006 good foreign national loans were available to residential real estate investors but that music stopped. After the meltdown even US citizens had a hard time getting mortgages but for foreign nationals i
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08/15/2017
Historically when I compute return on investment for Oklahoma City real estate rental properties cash on cash, cap rate, and internal rate of return has been the three main metrics, but we have added another. I am asked by real estate investors what the annual appreciation would be and if you use
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08/14/2017
The Oklahoma City real estate market is always a steady as she goes type of a market that normally is balanced but this year we saw a strong increase in the number of homes for sale. This happened primarily in existing homes because we are way behind demand on new home starts. Overall inventory
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08/10/2017
I entered real estate in October 1989 after 16 years of owning retail electronic stores, so dealing with the public was nothing new to me. In fact I knew I was an entrepreneur at 7 since my older siblings would have me sell their candy for them to win school contest. Going door to door became sec
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08/06/2017
One of the joys of living part time in Florida is that we get trees, flowers, and bushes we don't have in Oklahoma and of course, an ocean too. I love all the orchids, sea grapes, and palms everywhere, but on our last time in Florida I noticed this close to our condo. I have come around to orange
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07/23/2017
Coming back from Tel Aviv turned out to be the worst part of the trip. We were delayed 3.5 hours out of Tel Aviv and 12 hours later on arriving in Newark I found out that my Oklahoma City flight was canceled. United did a great job of re-booking me but the flight out to Denver didn't start boardi
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07/21/2017