Home Buyers Questions – Top 5

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Home Buyers ask a lot of questions – as they should – here are the top 5 questions asked and answered. Home Buyers Questions – Top 5 Q. How much money do I need out of pocket to buy a house? A. Depending on the type loan you have, to get started, you’ll need money [...]

Earnest Money and your offer on a real estate contract

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Earnest Money and Your Offer on a Real Estate Sales Contract While writing an offer on a real estate sales contract yesterday, my Buyers and I contemplated how much earnest money to offer. We are making a fair offer but are also asking the Seller to contribute towards the Buyer’s closing costs. In our market, [...]

Shift from a Buyer’s to a Seller’s Market – the growing pains

Tulsa home buyers ready to go

The Tulsa real estate market has remained fairly steady the past few years, never really reaching a high or a low. For the most part, it has been a Buyer’s market with different pockets of homes, different price ranges and locations selling in a reasonable amount of time. General rule of thumb has been that [...]

What I need to know when buying a house

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You’re ready to buy a house and are wondering what you need to know. You’ve shopped and have picked out the perfect home and are ready to write an offer – how exciting! Sales price. What you offer in terms of the sales price is going to depend on whether the home is priced competitively [...]

Midtown Tulsa homes with first floor master bedroom

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We give up a lot of luxuries in our historic midtown homes, but more and more Tulsa home buyers are demanding a first floor master bedroom. In our traditional 2-story homes found in Maple Ridge, Sunset Terrace, Swan Lake, Terwilleger Heights, and more – the bedrooms are typically all on the second floor, unless a [...]

House-warming gifts for Tulsa home buyers

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I don’t know whether Tulsa home buyers expect house-warming gifts, but sometimes I bring something to closing and sometimes I don’t. When working so closely with Buyers, constantly engaging and visiting during the home search process – nine times out of ten, a friendship will result. If my clients have used every spare penny available [...]

Midtown Tulsa homes for sale with 3 car garages

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Home buyers love the location and amenities of midtown, but are still searching for midtown Tulsa homes with 3 car garages. There’s actually more available than you would think – if you have a little money to spend. Mapped from Riverside to Harvard, 15th to 51st Streets, there are 41 active homes for sale with [...]

Home Buyer Representation – It Ain’t Over Till it’s Over

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All home Buyers benefit when they enlist a Buyer’s Broker to represent them in their real estate purchase transaction. Home selection and negotiation is key, but there’s not a happy ending to the story if the transaction fails in one of the final steps. My colleagues and I recorded a 3rd part to our video [...]

Use Protection – Why Tulsa Home Buyers Need a Buyer’s Broker

Tulsa home buyers need buyer representation

My colleagues and I recorded a 2nd part to our video titled “Use Protection – Use a Buyer’s Broker.” In this video, Rich Cederberg, Jeff Dowler, Bryan Robertson and I continue our discussion about Buyer representation, how it works and its advantages to home Buyers. Specifically, we discuss why you would want your own representation [...]

Buyer Representation, Buyer Protection – it’s key and it’s free!

Tulsa OK advantages of Buyer Representation

Use Protection – Use a Buyer’s Broker Today my colleagues and I recorded a video titled “Use Protection – Use a Buyer’s Broker.” In this video, Rich Cederberg, Jeff Dowler, Bryan Robertson and I discuss Buyer representation, how it works and its advantages to home Buyers. It boils down to the relationships and resources that [...]