The Future of Real Estate

Steve Brown of First United Bank Mortgage explains what Gift of Equity and how can people benefit from it. Gift of Equity can be used by family members whom for example the parents want to sell a house to their children, they can give a gift of equity that would cover the down payment or maybe including the closing costs for their children to have the home without spending money. The trick is it s...

Suzy Sharp talks about Heartwood Commons Tulsa and what is cohousing. Cohousing is basically a type of intentional community that came from Denmark in early 70’s and brought by architects in the United states that gives the opportunity to create a supportive environment with your neighbors. Heartwood Commons is built with 36 private and energy efficient homes with 4 different sizes from 1 bedroom...

Tom Taylor of Family and Children's Services tells about what services they do. They offer 60 programs to help family and childrens who are in need of help such as helping abused women and childrens, educational programs, hope and recovery programs for those who have mental illness and addiction. They want to be the place where people can turn to when they have nothing to go to. They also partner...

Youth Services of Tulsa, a non profit organization whose mission is to value and accept all youth challenging them to accept their potential. They help the youth and their family navigate the path of creating successful adults. They are the only non profit organization in Tulsa who serves only adolescents and young adults. They have programs for runaway home issues, for LGBTQ youth and programs to...

There are a lot of Brokerage discounts offered today, now here are the tips on comparing real estate agents fees to better benefit you. Discount is getting a full service with less money, so if you are getting a reduced service for less money you're not getting a discount but just less service. In the real estate world, you need to look at the total level of service, skill, market knowledge and co...

Tulsa Real Estate market update for the past 7 days, 193 new listings, 210 closed listings, 288 pending sales. 9 properties increased in price and 66 properties decreased in price, and 35 properties went back to the market. Data compared from May 2021 and May 2020, there is an increase of 21 percent in closed sales, the average days on the market goes down 25.62 percent and a drop of over 50 perce...

Luxury living in Devonshire, a gated community in Bixby Schools, bitcoin is accepted on this property as far as we know the only property in the area where bitcoin is accepted. Gate guarded neighborhood, viking commercial appliances and outdoor kitchen, full body shower jet, Italian limestone walls, theater room with its own concession stand, travertine flooring, four fireplaces, outdoor living sp...

There are a lot of things happening at Bixby, the downtown corridor will experience a massive change. If you are planning to put a business in the next area that’s gonna be all the buzz, check out 1N Armstrong St in Bixby; it is for lease at $7.50 a foot. Concrete structure, clear span, approximately 5,250 square feet, 6 zones of heating air and a historical location. Bixby's old icehouse. It coul...

Professionals who are outside the special education programs are willing to commit to work with students with special needs such as Tulsa Tech. According to Randy McGoffin, Tulsa Tech had a program that they wanted the student to go through but the student has limited cognitive skills so the instructor wrote a different curriculum for the student to complete the program and went successful. There...

Randy McGoffin, a retired special education professional is here at the hidden workforce to tell us the success stories of the special education students. The special education is targeting the preparation for the students to either continue their academic education or to enter the workforce. So there will be two programs depending on the goal to attain. The success story today will be the success...

This week we will hear success stories from high school students who were on the special education program in Berryhill High School. Randy Mcgoffin returns to the hidden workforce to bring stories that will inspire you and Chris Miller the vice president of operations for Rise Staffing to share his job and responsibilities in Rise Staffing. If you or someone in your family is looking for employmen...

It’s been a good week for the housing supply, closing the gap for just 20 more sold houses than the listings. 201 new listings and 218 closed sales over a 7 day period, houses over a million dollars currently active in the Tulsa MLS system has a total of 126. The highest price that is available in the MLS being $7,900,000. The house is 23,244 square feet, a thousand acres and is built in 2020. Clo...

Due to the mortgage being the lowest we have been in decades, it is the perfect time to buy the home that we want or to remodel what we already have. But on the other hand we also have a shortage in labor and the materials to get to that dream house that we want. And most of the big saw millers in the US and around the world have shut down when covid started and we also need to import a lot of lum...

Imagine losing your spouse, becoming a single parent for two toddlers overnight then learning that you cannot stay in your home and none of the equity is yours and won’t get a single penny when it is sold. It is such a problem but realtors who are certified divorce real estate experts have an antenna that alerts us when we see or hear about things that could become problematic. They can recognize...

Andrew Ragusa of REMI Realty talks about five things you need to know when listing without a realtor. First is ve prepared to vet the buyer, if you are selling your house for sale by owner you wouldn’t know what to look for but a realtor does. Second is know everything you can and you can’t do in the transaction because you don’t have the experience that the realtor has. You also need to consider...

Fathers Day is coming to celebrate and honor all the fathers in the world. Fathers Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas. It was to honor her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, who is a single parent who raised his six children there. And now here in Tulsa we will also be celebrating Fathers Day. There will be ac...

Everyone wants to be paid and that is why collection is that much important to every client. Zach Enlow of Enlow Law will explain to us how collection of payment works. He kinda expects for the next 6 to 8 months a collection uptick due to so much people spending and because the economy is starting to recover. There are very specific tools for collection that are available and some of it that Enlo...

Flexibility is something that people have lost and it does not just equate to physical flexibility but also to emotional flexibility which is your ability to bend to situations. And it correlates to the trend of yoga today, which is also one way to keep your body fit and to get stronger in fighting stress. As a realtor, this should also be one of your assets to carry for you need to be flexible al...

The Eviction Moratorium is about to end, Zach Enlow of Enlow Law is here to give us some ideas about what is happening. Last year the federal government issued a moratorium that prohibits the eviction of tenants but now starting July 1st evictions are supposed to go back to normal. Which means if you are a landlord and your tenant failed to pay you can now give them notice to quit and failure to p...

Rusty Mcmurray, CEO and chairman of the board of Sunshine Care and host of the doctor show in KRMG talks about what is happening with the medical care for seniors. And according to him, covid has done an important part in revolutionizing and changing medicine and expanding telehealth or virtual medicine. And as people are already working from home medicine is now coupled with the hot real estate m...

Sitting is the new smoking, that is what most people say today, Dr. Mark Sherwood of Functional Medical Institute tells us to move. It is not necessarily like you have to go to the gym, become a bodybuilder or become a marathon runner. The good thing is you just need to walk more, walk around your building, around the office and say hello to people. People could use the 20 and 2 rule, for every 20...

Steve Brown of First United Bank Mortgage shares the things we need to consider when to refinance the house. First you need to consider how long you should stay in the house because when you refinance you will also have a closing cost. Some companies offer no closing fees but the truth about it is that they already ibuild it into your rate and charge you with a much higher rate so you won’t have t...

First Title originally Smith Brothers Abstract and has been in the state of Tulsa since 1920. Luke Strawn, CEO of First Title and Tristy Fryer training coordinator tells us about First Title and the Bridges Foundation. Luke's own daughter got down syndrome and he was already thinking about her life and her work after school. There was one time when her daughter had a tour and when she came home it...

Lined up today, Michael Willis the Tulsa County Clerk to explain to us what the county clerk does. We will also be talking to Shawn Worley about medical marijuana business licensing. There is also Tulsa Tough that is going on that is one of the best cycle race in the country that brings in people all over the world. Tulsa is not just about rodeo and hunting, there are a lot more that Tulsa can off...

You own a home but your wife suddenly passes away, what will happen to the home? Michael Willis County Clerk is here to talk about what will happen and what are your options. It will be either it will be probated or they will file a new deed. But going into probate will cost you a lot of money but you have options not to go through this. It could be solved by either a will, proper documentation or...