The Future of Real Estate

Lisa Toth with Tristy Fryer, training coordinator of First Title talks about their partnership with the Bridges Foundation to provide job opportunities for adults with disabilities. They help in training people with disabilities to learn office and computer skills to provide job opportunities to them. The bridges foundation which was founded 1964 by a group of parents who wanted better for their k...

You are about to move, things are ready, you are packed up, the move is scheduled but we should not forget and take into consideration our fur babies when we will be moving. Prepare a moving kit, create an overnight bag for your pet, pet food, toys, a bed and a litter so that everything they need is easily accessible while you are busy packing boxes. There are a lot of commotions that will happen...

There are a lot of instruments available to help you grow your money and Brenda Alfaro is here to talk about the power of compound interest. The concept of compounding comes down into the rule of 72, and schools don’t talk about that and if they do it will just be so fast. This is a basic math equation to know how long it will take your money to double. So you need to put your money into a financi...

Brenda Alfaro, licensed financial advisor, talks about debt stacking which basically taking into account the interest rate, the amount of debt that you have and as well as the minimum payments and creating a plan to get out of debt as fast as possible. You can talk to financial advisers for you to be able to work on your financial debts and get out of debt as quickly as possible. They even got the...

There are a lot of companies out there who want to make sure that you are protected incase of a tragedy happens to get your mortgage covered but the reality is you really don’t know what it includes and by the time the mortgage is paid off or you want to sell the house it is going to change. Brenda Alfaro, financial advisor, recommends that you just get a simple life insurance for life insurance c...

Jessica Jones-Lasley, a professional athlete and an advocate of cycling tells us about the Tulsa Tough Week and the fun things about it. There will be 3 days of crit racing which is a smaller loop with a lot of corners and technical riding where cyclists will ride in groups like drafting. It is varying in minutes from 30 minutes of over an hour for the pros, and if you visit the Tulsa Tough websit...

There is still a shortage in inventory at the current market status today, which means about the time a house gets in the market ready to go which will take a tremendous amount of work upfront to stage it and have it prepared. It will maybe be sold in an hour or a few days at most but it will be sold quickly. You might not hear about it on the program but you will hear about it if you sign up for...

Chris Shrout, born in Oklahoma, moved to Iowa and got his undergraduate degree at the University of Northern Iowa. Interned for the city of Jenks and worked with the city manager where he had learned so many things and now the Jenks city manager shared about the Oklahoma Aquarium. Jenks has been blessed for a lot of growth for the last 6 yrs and for the next decade to come. For the Oklahoma aquari...

Finding the most current property that just hit the market is really the most important part of being a home buyer during this market time to get the best deals. Where can you find those? What is happening to your data? Is it being sold or it stays locally? www.homeguidetulsa.com, one address, thousands of homes. You are working with real estate professionals, your information is not being sold an...

The Tulsa metro area now has a Linear park and Jared Cottle talks about this which is one of the latest projects that is part of the downtown river corridor efforts. This will make people come out and enjoy all of its amenities. They can come enjoy the river, ride on the river, there will also be food trucks and events on the bridge. This also connects trail systems where families can enjoy biking...

Michael Goodman of Goodman Construction is here to give us ideas about window silvering. Window silvering is basically providing the window a reflective capability which prevents the heat transfer to the window by breaking the heat transfer process. In Window World of Tulsa their branding of reflectivity is so called solar zone and the best R value window that they can offer is the solar zone 70....

Market update today, for the past seven days there are 220 closed home sales and 137 new listings according to the MLS in the Tulsa metro area. Again, closed sales outphased the new listings and there are also 222 that are pending over the past seven days. Let’s take a look outside the Tulsa metro area at Berryhill school district just on the west side of the town, if you want to buy a home right...

More information and latest statistics about the Tulsa housing market today, the average sale price according to the multiple listing service is $235,991 for the Tulsa metro area. This is up a shocking 29 percent compared to april 2020. A 6 to 7 months worth of inventory is considered to be a balanced market, over it will be good for the buyers and now on the current statistics we are on less than...

Autumn Gillespie, singer and advocate of suicide awareness that brings hope through her music. She started singing when she was just 4 years old and kept on singing in little venues mostly churches then the shallow video from the movie A Star was Born went viral and boosted her in the music industry. And now she is an internet phenomena spreading suicide awareness through social media. Facebook ha...

Michael Willis of the county clerk office tells us about liens and how it will affect your property. Basically when you hire someone to do a job and you will not pay them in full they will file that lien and that will hold up your property from being sold, refinanced or anything like that until it’s cleared up. This might cause you a lot of money and will take proceeds when you sell your house so...

Evan Taylor talks about Fostering Connections which is an organization whose mission is to serve abused and neglected childrens in Tulsa county and surrounding county. They do have a resource center near 51st in Harbour where families can shop for free once a month and get clothing items, back to school items and cribs. They also offer assistance like emergency placement where if someone gets a ba...

Mike Goodman of Goodman construction tells us what should be the right thing to do to get your old roof replaced with a new one. Most people call their insurance company right after a storm or whenever they are in doubt if their roof has any damage. That is not the right way to do it, whenever there is a leak or if you have a doubt for roof damage you should call first a reputable company to come...

Market update today, for the past 7 days there are 525 recorded new listings and 690 closed property. We are still selling more houses than what we are listing and the inventory continues to shrink. And under $200,000 there are 191 new listings and 295 closed listings about 100 short. The average price is almost $236,000 of 1.7 months of inventory and a healthy market is about 4 or 5mos of invento...

Lumber Prices are still going high and Stan Stevens is here to talk about lumber prices and how it impacts the market. There are a lot of housing developments here around Broken Arrow, Jenks and in Bixby and because the supply of houses is very low, that is driving the demand for new housing and new construction. The demand for new houses significantly affects the increase of lumber prices. Lumber...

Heather Vest talks about the Iron Man marathon event that's going to happen in Tulsa where certified and highly trained athletes are going to be joining the said competition. IRONMAN Tulsa will provide the guests the opportunity to explore the unexplored and to go where others have never ventured. This will give the Tulsans the opportunity to show to the world how beautiful Tulsa is that will make...

Properly trimmed trees will really look great just like having a new haircut and a good or bad haircut is also easy to spot. Monster Tree Service will give us tips on how to properly maintain our beloved tree to keep it looking nice and beautiful. A properly pruned tree will keep it look nice compared to a topped tree which is basically reducing the height of the tree. Pruning a tree should be don...

Kati Ellis of Happy Hands Education Center discusses how to respond to deaf and non-hearing kids and how they give them hope. Happy Hands Education Center provides early education to deaf and non-hearing kids. They take 6 weeks old up to 6 years old. For them, it is important to have an early education because the brainwaves of children those ages are developing and that they need early access to...

Kati Ellis of Happy Hands Education Center, shares with us their upcoming event which is the Annual Kids Fun Run on May 21st, 2021. Happy Hands Education Center, is a Christian non-profit School that is taking care of deaf and non-hearing kids from 6 weeks old up to 6 years old. They provide early intervention needed to these kids so they don’t get behind with their peers when entering the first g...

Kati Ellis of Happy Hands Education Center shares with us the upcoming Golf Tournament on June 15th, 2021. Happy Hands Education Center, is a Christian non-profit School, that is taking care of deaf and non-hearing kids from 6 weeks old up to 6 years old. They provide early intervention needed to these kids so they don’t get behind with their peers when entering the first grade. Their main goal is...

Today’s show will be talking about the multiple listing statistics and how it affects the community. Over the past 7 days, there are 471 closed listings and 473 new listings. It shows the close margin between the two. The shortage of new houses has created an affordability problem but it’s actually not a big problem because people that are coming in the area makes the economy improve. What’s impor...