The Future of Real Estate

Michael Goodman of Goodman Construction shares to us the proper and fair way to resolve contactor payment holdback issues to prevent you from absorbing the risks while still maintaining a good relationship with the contactor. Get a reasonable amount paid and hold back more than what the item would cost but the amount should be a fair and justifiable amount to the contractors side. To schedule a FR...

Bob Harrison of Increase shares to us the principle of success and the right mindset to reach it. It is living your life to become a blessing to others because there is more to life than just taking. That we need to have a blessing so that we can be a blessing and in that way we can be able to have the happiness and satisfaction in our life. We will feel the excitement and youthfulness each and ev...

Steve Brown of First United Bank Mortgage talks about the benefits that low interest rates will give to us when buying a house. When buying a house we are buying the property itself and we are buying the money. When we can buy the money on such a discount it will really provide tremendous leverage for you. Taking advantage of lower interest rates will not just give you a much lower monthly payment...

Steve Brown of First United Bank Mortgage talks about the details of credit scores and qualifications. For first time home buyers you can use down payment assistance but sometimes they will require you to have 2 mos of reserve after you close but if someone has a higher credit score that would qualify for the downpayment oftentimes they will not require the 2 mo reserve anymore. You need to have a...

Dr. Mark Sherwood of Functional Medical Institute explains to us about naturopathic doctors' way of putting the body to its optimum and best through natural remedies. A naturopathic doctor generally has all the biochemical and physiological training that a medical doctor would have; they just don't have the prescribing powers of a pharmaceutical drug. They do want to prevent the side effects of us...

The story all started when Bob Harrison was offered a deal with an owner of a chrysler store who is about to be closed and the deal is he will get 22% of the dealership if he could save the store and ended up buying the dealership. Since then business groups started to put him to speak about how he did it and that was the start of how Bob Harrison started to touch and inspire the life of other peo...

The development in Jenks Oklahoma is really never ending, there is a new bank building, a 4 story hotel, a general store that is expected to open by the end of April all located at Gateway District. And as you go further east on main street into town on melanie lane district we have an old strip mall that was given a facelift by red dog construction, added a sports armory on it, there is Jenks mar...

Let's learn some words for today, eminent is used to describe a person who stands above others in a noticeable way while imminent is used to describe something that is about to happen soon. And immanent means being within the limits of possible experience or knowledge. Those were just some words with almost the same sounds but of different meanings. And one more question we are going to answer for...

The latest new update about the effect of high lumber price on the cost of an average new single family home. The National Association of Realtors reports a record high lumber price at $24000 to the price of a new home and this price spike has caused a new single family home to increase for $24,386 since april 17th of 2020. According to the National Association of Home builders similarly the marke...

Now it’s time for the word of the day, meticulous which means extreme or excessive care in consideration or treatment of details. It is derived from the latin word “metus” which means fear. And in real estate news Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HSPI) a composite index designed to track the housing market and consumer confidence to buy or sell a home fell 1.2 points in february. The pe...

March is 5th annual Ladder Safety Month according to the National Home Builders Association ladder accidents records a huge percentage of home buildings and jobsite injuries. Estimates of 81 percent of construction cites fall injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms involved a ladder. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health about 300 people die from ladder relate...

We are now in a battle between saving the environment and saving money to stay alive, especially those who are running business. But there is a misconception about having a green building, people believe that having a green building will cost you more but in reality green buildings can pay for themselves. You just need to have a knowledgeable team, you also need to go over the costs or the initial...

Dr. Mark Sherwood of Functional Medical Institute tells us his healthy eating tips to eliminate all self imposed choice driven disease processes like type 2 diabetes, heat disease, cancer,alzheimer's disease, dementia and even osteoporosis. 85-90 percent of these disease are caused by the chronic choice to participate in the standard american diet. These foods will destroy our health and if you wa...

Home Equity is something we should manage properly and not to spend on something we really don’t need or something that will just give us another problem. Pamela Wright of eXp Realty shares to us how home equity can have an impact on our life. We can use home equity for emergencies like for medical emergencies, we can also use it to buy a bigger house or we can use it for restructuring existing lo...

Pamela Wright of eXp Realty tells us her tips on how you can prepare your home to sell. First you need to get your front door ready for it will set the mood of the house that is why it should look great. You can also use bold colors and decorative ceilings or use a lighter color for the ceiling to make it look high. You don’t want to give your buyers an impression that will make them write on the...

Mat Zalk gives us ideas on which will be the best profile for a rental property. Rental pay if you want to buy a rental property will really depend on how renovated the property is. And as of now the median rental value as of now is about $1050 or $1100 and rental rates may continue to go up because tulsa remote is bringing in a lot of people. Folks are also fleeing because they don’t need to be i...

Self managing your own property could work but it also has disadvantages, and Mat Zalk of Keyrenter will walk us through the things that may cause problems in self managing your property and also to the benefits of having it managed by professional property managers. First among the common problems of self managing your property will be the maintenance,and then the disputes of who will shoulder th...

Mat Zalk of Keyrenter Property Management explains how a property management company works, how they manage and monitor leasing properties, repairs and etc. Keyrenter Property Management uses an amazing software to keep track of everything because in property management there are a lot of moving parts. From repair and maintenance pipeline, leasing pipeline, renewal pipeline, collection pipeline an...

Mat Zalk talks about how to find the right tenant and the pros and cons of having a short term rental property compared to a long term one. There are people who find success in short term rental and there are also who failed. But then it is because there are things to consider when choosing what business model you will be doing. One of the things you need to consider in finding a good long term re...

There are a lot of funny landlord stories we can hear from different property owners about their property and we can’t help it. Just like those landlord stories, as property managers what they do is they prevent these things and all the other things that give headache to the property owners. They help property owners save money, time and headache in dealing with things such as making sure everythi...

Mat Zalk of Keyrenter Property Management talks about the things you need to know as an owner that would help you decide which will be favorable repairs or upgrades to do to your property. Do not put too much into your home just before you are going to put it into the market, make your house nice for you to live in today not a month before you move out for somebody else. And in taking into conside...

Pamela Wright and Sabrina Shaw of eXp Realty talks about housing inventory, what it means, its effect and how to take advantage of it. Is winter a good time to list your home? Is it more affordable to buy a home than rent one? Or what does record low housing inventory mean to you? With this current market it is always a good time to list your home especially during winter. Home buyer calls go down...

Charlie Smith of Byrd Pool Services shares to us the basics of pool construction, its components, repairs and maintenance. When we talk about pools there are a lot of type of pool construction such as gunite, fiberglass and liner. Typically the vinyl liner and the fiberglass pool will be the first entry for its construction expense is less and gunite is much more expensive but also much more durab...

Dr Matt Brooks of First Baptist Church shares to us that God wants us to know who we are, who he is and what we are here to do. We are living in a post-truth-world. The bible says that Jesus Christ is the truth and the truth will set us free. But our world tells the opposite. It tells us that the truth is relative and convenient. It restricts us and brings complexities. God wants us to be free. In...

Dr Matt Brooks pastor of First Baptist Church Broken Arrow tells us the church is always alive, we have an organization and a collection of individuals who are following Jesus Christ. Setting a structure to allow us clearly communicate God’s plan for people is relevant. Our mistake is underestimating what God can do to our lives. We tend to listen to everything around us, that's why we think we ar...