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Beautiful Wildflowers in Tulsa Brookside Neighborhood

Yesterday,  after being treated by my two children to a wonderful brunch experience at the Brassiere, we stumbled on to this vacant lot in Brookside boasting the most colorful wildflowers!  It is located just East of Peoria on 35th Street, around the 1300 Block.  Tulsa Midtown neighborhoods are in full spring bloom right now and if you’re a flower lover, or enjoy beautiful landscaping, a tour of the Utica Square area, Brookside neighborhood,  and Cherry Street neighborhoods will find you in awe of the splendor of Spring! 

If you are in Midtown this week, take a quick detour and enjoy a wonderful moment taking in the beauty of  these gorgeous flowers!  Be sure to take your camera.   

Many thanks to the owner of this lot for creating such a lovely sight for so many to enjoy and enhance the beauty of our wonderful city!

Go ahead and click on the pictures to enjoy a larger preview.

Have a great week!

Linda Smalley, Tulsa Real Estate   918.630.8431

“BUYERS DECIDE WITHIN 8 SECONDS WHETHER THEY ARE INTERESTED IN YOUR HOME.” according to Barbara Corcoran, Real Estate Mogul and contributor to NBC’s Today Show.

This is why your home must make it’s best impression to potential home buyers in the Tulsa Real Estate Market upon their arrival to your home.   Actually, great photos online will entice them to your home, so make sure you have professional photos and the maximum amount allowed, then make sure your home’s appeal lives up to the photos.

It’s the first impression when walking in and hearing “Wow, this is cute” or “I love this room!”  or, “Ugh, what is that smell?” or “It’s kinda of dark in here” pretty much sums up whether the tour of your home will advance any further.

I tell my buyers that they will know and have the feeling that this is a house that they will love when they first walk through the front door.  Trust your “gut reaction” or your intuition.  If it doesn’t look right, feel right or smell right within the first 8-10 seconds,  we should move on to the next showing.   

Sellers in the Tulsa Real Estate market should remember this and make your home, clean, inviting, well-maintained, and clutter-free, and that all starts at the curb.  Good clean, well-maintained and correctly priced Tulsa area homes sell first.

For a consultation on getting your home ready to list, call me for an appointment today.  I would love to see your home, its potential and help you get it SOLD!  I work all areas of the Tulsa Real Estate Market. Tulsa Homes, Jenks Homes, Bixby Homes, Broken Arrow Homes, Claremore Homes, Coweta Homes, Owasso Homes, Sapulpa Homes and more!

Linda Smalley, Tulsa Real Estate 918.630.8431

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Your home deserves the “Elite” treatment from one of Oklahoma’s “Elite” Realtors!  

 As a Chinowth & Cohen Realtor, I bring the knowledge, the experience, and the tools to market your home and get it sold in the Tulsa Real Estate market.

Chinowth & Cohen’s  state-of-the-art marketing tools put our client’s homes heads-above-the-rest making your home more appealing to more buyers and their agents. My reputation and success in working with other agents has gained their respect and trust in the homes that I list and client’s I represent.

My comprehensive marketing analysis will help you price your home to sell in today’s market, and I believe in working closely with my clients, addressing their concerns, and keeping an open line of communication throughout the process.

I offer staging options and evaluation of your homes condition, and marketability to help you present your home’s best features, or address your homes fatal features.

Call me today for an introductory appointment before you decide to list with any other agent.  We can discuss why you home hasn’t sold or how we can get it sold, and what it will take to get the job done!  Linda’s Cell  918.630.8431

Whether you are selling a home or buying a home, you’ll have the “Elite” advantage working for you!

Linda Smalley, Tulsa Real Estate Agent

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Realtor® Nationwide Open House Weekend Provides Opportunities for Buyers and Sellers in the Tulsa Real Estate Market.

If you are seaching for a particular area, price range or style of home, give me a call and I can help you find what you are looking for! 

 Linda Smalley, Realtor®Associate    cell phone:   918.630.8431

 www.LindaSmalleyHomes.com

  Email:  lsmalley@cctulsa.com

I was very surprised a couple of months ago to receive a phone call from Lowe’s.  I have been using their Realtor@ Benefits Program for the last two years which allows me to send discount coupons to my buyers and sellers and Gift Cards for closing gifts.  I’ve had a really nice response from my clients and decided to post a testimonial on Lowe’s website.  Now they’ve paid it forward and used my testimonial in a nationally distributed real estate publication.   If you would like to know more about the benefits that I can pass on to you as your Realtor@, then please give me a call.  If you are a buyer, then the discounts can help you get your home ready to list, and if you are a seller, then you have a wonderful discount to buy the items you will need for your new home.  As my client, you will receive this perk when you sell and/or buy a home.  Call me today to learn more about receiving these discounts and check out the article at http://remag.rismedia.com/i/60791/43 to read about this wonderful advantage that Lowe’s allows me to give to you!!

Linda Smalley,  Sales Associate, 918.630.8431

Chinowth & Cohen Realtors

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New employees transferring in from other cities  in to the Tulsa area have many tasks to check off their lists before they can settle in and get down to work. Finding a place to live in the Tulsa real estate market can be one of the most daunting of those tasks when relocating.

 Each of them will probably conduct on-line searches in the Tulsa real estate market in preparation for the move. But those searches won’t give them the information they really need when they don’t yet know their way around our city.

 Homes that look promising on line can turn out to be far less than desirable in person – and sometimes it’s the other way around.

 MLS searches also don’t reveal information on businesses and facilities that will be important to your employees during their off-work hours. For instance, they don’t generally show the distance to a health club or a golf course – or even to a grocery store!

 If they’re bringing families with them, it can be even more confusing. They have no idea which school district is the most desirable or which neighborhoods are near parks and other kid-friendly facilities.

Whether your new employees are searching for a home to buy or prefer to rent in the Tulsa area for a while, I’ll be happy to act as their “advance scout.”I’ll take their “Need and want” lists and search out the homes that most closely fit their needs – both from a “bedrooms and baths” standpoint, and with regard to the location. Then I’ll preview them to make sure each house really is as described.

If they need a rental rather than a home to purchase, I’ll check out each facility under consideration to be sure it’s clean and well-maintained.

 With my assistance, your new employees will shave days or even weeks off their home search, because by the time they arrive here in (city) we’ll have a good list of homes to consider. They won’t waste time looking at homes, condos, or apartments that just “won’t do.”

Please pass my offer along to anyone relocating to Tulsa area, or give me a call or e-mail to let me know the names of people I should contact. I promise, they’ll be glad you did.

 My business is built on my reputation – a reputation for giving service beyond compare. and I am ready to  meet their Tulsa relocation needs.

Linda Smalley, Sales Associate

CHINOWTH&COHEN REALTORS

3912 East 91^st Street   Tulsa, OK  74137

Office:  918.392.0900     Cell:  918.630.8431

Email:  lsmalley@cctulsa.com  

www.LindaSmalleyHomes.com

Personal computers have been around long enough that everyone has experienced or knows someone who has lost their data due to a hard drive crash, accident or burglary. If they had a backup, the loss was inconvenient but not critical.Do you have a backup for your personal belongings? Not that you need duplicates of all the items but do you have a journal listing of all the items with a description and their approximate values? That record becomes the backup that supports the claim for your insurance.
If a building sustains a total loss, the insurance company will usually pay the face amount of the policy. When it comes to personal property which might be 40% to 50% of the insured value of the dwelling, the insurance company is going to expect an accounting with receipts or at least, a relatively recent inventory.
The better your inventory, the less likely you’ll have difficulty with the claim. Almost everyone has a digital camera that can take stills and probably even videos. The combination of the images as well as a written description will help you replace the belongings and serve as proof to the insurance company.
Once you’ve made the inventory, store it off site for safe keeping. Online storage in the “cloud” might be the best place to insure you’ll always know where it is. Contact me for a free Home Inventory form; it’s my way of helping you be a better homeowner. 

Linda Smalley,  Tulsa Area Real Estate Professional  918.630.8431

Have you ever had a service company to your home to repair something and find out that it really wasn’t “broken”? It probably conjured up ambivalent feelings of joy that it wasn’t something serious and frustration that you had to pay a service call for something so simple.

Before you call the repairman for your home repairs in the Tulsa area next time, keep these things in mind to see if it is something simple:

• Disposer not working – check to see if the reset button has been thrown. It is usually on the bottom of the disposer. If the disposer is making a humming sound, the blades may be stuck. While the disposer is turned off, use a wooden broom handle as a lever to gently rotate the blades. Remove the broom handle and turn on the disposer to see if it works properly.
• Air conditioner not working – check to see if a breaker has thrown on your electric panel. You might need to flip the breaker completely off and flip it back on.
• Electrical outlets not working – Electrical plugs in bathrooms or outside, especially on a porch or patio, are many times connected to a ground fault interrupter. The GFI will be a wall outlet and it may be located in the garage. Locate the outlet and reset the button that may have tripped.
• Clogged drain – a simple way to correct a slow or clogged drain is to use the water pressure from a garden hose. You’ll need a helper to turn on the water full-blast once you have safely placed the hose in the drain and are holding a hand-towel around the hose to direct the water to the drain. Be prepared to tell your helper to turn off the water when needed.

Whether it’s preparing a home to marketin the Tulsa Real Estate Market  or arranging repairs required by the sale, as a REALTOR®, I  know reputable, reasonable and reliable service contractors. We’re here to share our contacts with you to help make home ownership better.  Call me at 918.63.8431 for my complete list of reputable, reasonable and reliable to help you keep your home in tip-top shape or for repairs for selling or buying a  home in the Tulsa.

The Mortgage Forgiveness Relief Act of 2007 was passed by Congress to avoid additional financial hardship that some homeowners might experience due to a foreclosure or short sale. The law affects mortgage relief that occurs from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2012.

Normally, IRS considers partial or total debt forgiven by a lender to be treated as ordinary income. This not only affects foreclosures but even short sales where only part of the debt is forgiven would trigger additional taxes for the homeowner. There are exceptions that apply such as bankruptcy and insolvency.

The forgiveness is only applicable to taxpayers’ principal residence and only acquisition debt used to buy, build or improve the home. The additional cash taken out when refinancing a home will not be eligible for the relief unless it is used for capital improvements.

The lender is required to submit a 1099 form to IRS and provide the homeowner a copy who will file the forgiven amount on Form 982 as part of their 1040 tax return. How this affects your individual situation may differ due to other circumstances and advice from a tax professional is recommended.