The timeshare has been resurrected on a grand scale. Previous timeshare groups wrecked the industry and left consumers short by overbooking the resorts and failing to properly budget money that would be needed for future operations. Recent developments however, have brought the timeshare back and into the luxury market with a bang. High-end consumers who tired of maintaining luxury residences which were not frequently used have opted to purchase timeshares for the amount of time they vacation. An added benefit is the ability to select one of multiple locations. I am most intrigued by the luxury cruise line residences under construction and scheduled to set sail in 2008. With these ships, owners purchase a portion of the luxury liner. Prices of these packages range from $450,000 to several million. There are tremendous changes in luxury housing and staying on top of the trends is an important part of marketing my luxury homes. It is a worldwide market and we have to look for buyers outside of our own backyard. Staying up on the worldwide trends of luxury real estate and luxury home buyers is why I travel outside Tulsa to network with other luxury real estate brokers.
Darryl Baskin is a Tulsa, OK real estate broker. Recognized by Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate, Regents.com, Allen Hainge CyberStars, and Star Power as a national leader in real estate sales and customer service. Darryl Baskin and The Baskin Real Estate Specialists of McGraw Realtors serve clients in the Tulsa, OK area including Broken Arrow, Jenks, Owasso, Bixby, Coweta, Glenpool, Sapulpa, Claremore, and other Tulsa Metro area cities helping home sellers and home buyers make sound decisions in their real estate transactions.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Open Houses; Effective Sales Tool or Hype
If you are spending $200,000 on a new home, will your criteria be “I am only going to buy a house that is open this weekend”?
The truth is, open houses are a great tool for real estate agents to find buyers to sell other homes to. Open houses are even a good tool for an agent to get out of the doghouse with a home seller because it makes the home seller feel like you are doing working hard for them. Most agents who push open houses as a good home marketing tool are not in high demand by home sellers or home buyers.
Safety is also a concern for home sellers and agents. More home sellers are becoming less enthralled by the idea of allowing strangers to enter their homes and reports of agents being attacked while holding open houses are changing the way agents think of open houses.
Educated home buyers seek skilled agents before they choose a house and won’t decide to use a certain Realtor because they were sitting at an open house. Beyond an opportunity to meet people, open houses are becoming less appealing to agent too. As sophisticated home buyers utilize more efficient tools to find their new home, agents find the least qualified buyers visiting open houses.
The Baskin Real Estate Specialists will spare you the open house hype and provide substantial marketing expertise instead. Call Darryl Baskin at McGraw Realtors 918-258-2600.
The truth is, open houses are a great tool for real estate agents to find buyers to sell other homes to. Open houses are even a good tool for an agent to get out of the doghouse with a home seller because it makes the home seller feel like you are doing working hard for them. Most agents who push open houses as a good home marketing tool are not in high demand by home sellers or home buyers.
Safety is also a concern for home sellers and agents. More home sellers are becoming less enthralled by the idea of allowing strangers to enter their homes and reports of agents being attacked while holding open houses are changing the way agents think of open houses.
Educated home buyers seek skilled agents before they choose a house and won’t decide to use a certain Realtor because they were sitting at an open house. Beyond an opportunity to meet people, open houses are becoming less appealing to agent too. As sophisticated home buyers utilize more efficient tools to find their new home, agents find the least qualified buyers visiting open houses.
The Baskin Real Estate Specialists will spare you the open house hype and provide substantial marketing expertise instead. Call Darryl Baskin at McGraw Realtors 918-258-2600.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
If Everyone Bought an AHS Home Warranty
If Everyone Bought an AHS Home Warranty
Homebuyers often worry about the risks they are taking with their home purchase. Broken appliances, garage door openers, pool pumps, they all bring concern to homebuyers who are leery of buying their way into someone else’s deferred maintenance trap. This is why every house we list is presented with an American Home Shield Warranty. Through a special program we have arranged with AHS, our home sellers are able to offer a home warranty for potential home buyers but still keep their options open just in case their home buyer does not see the value of these inexpensive policies.
Home warranties provide a safeguard for home buyers who want a safety net against unforeseen expenses. For more information on home selling strategies, which increase the saleability of your Tulsa area property, contact Darryl Baskin at McGraw Realtors 918-258-2600.
Darryl Baskin is a Tulsa, OK real estate broker. Recognized by Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate, Regents.com, Allen Hainge CyberStars, and Star Power as a national leader in real estate sales and customer service. Darryl Baskin and The Baskin Real Estate Specialists of McGraw Realtors serve clients in the Tulsa, OK area including Broken Arrow, Jenks, Owasso, Bixby, Coweta, Glenpool, Sapulpa, Claremore, and other Tulsa Metro area cities helping home sellers and home buyers make sound decisions in their real estate transactions.
Homebuyers often worry about the risks they are taking with their home purchase. Broken appliances, garage door openers, pool pumps, they all bring concern to homebuyers who are leery of buying their way into someone else’s deferred maintenance trap. This is why every house we list is presented with an American Home Shield Warranty. Through a special program we have arranged with AHS, our home sellers are able to offer a home warranty for potential home buyers but still keep their options open just in case their home buyer does not see the value of these inexpensive policies.
Home warranties provide a safeguard for home buyers who want a safety net against unforeseen expenses. For more information on home selling strategies, which increase the saleability of your Tulsa area property, contact Darryl Baskin at McGraw Realtors 918-258-2600.
Darryl Baskin is a Tulsa, OK real estate broker. Recognized by Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate, Regents.com, Allen Hainge CyberStars, and Star Power as a national leader in real estate sales and customer service. Darryl Baskin and The Baskin Real Estate Specialists of McGraw Realtors serve clients in the Tulsa, OK area including Broken Arrow, Jenks, Owasso, Bixby, Coweta, Glenpool, Sapulpa, Claremore, and other Tulsa Metro area cities helping home sellers and home buyers make sound decisions in their real estate transactions.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Forest Trails to Get Final Sewer Connection
Matt Vaughan from the City of Tulsa presented plans for new sewer lines to homeowners in Forest Trails. The meeting was held February 11th at St. James church.
Download plat with sewer lines at foresttrails.us
Forest Trails is slated to receive its long-awaited connection to the city sewer system in 2009. The 1.2 Million dollar project to complete the sewer construction for the Forest Trails neighborhood is currently collecting easement approval. Neighbors petitioned to bring sewer to the remaining homes in the area. A group of homes in the Forest Trails, mostly homes in the center of the platted area, were not connected during the first two phases of sewer installation and remained unsewered since homes were constructed.
No easements will be required for the neighboring subdivision of Sheridan Park but all Forest Trails homeowners must approve easements for construction to begin. While options are available if easements are not granted, the City cannot take an easement for this project by eminent domain.
Matt Vaughn, with the City of Tulsa, said Manholes will be required at each bend in the sewer pipe. The City will attempt to place the connection “T’s” in locations which is the least obtrusive to neighbors.
Connection requirements
• Owners are required to connect to the sewer within 90 days. If a homeowner does not connect within 90 days, the homeowner will begin to receive a sewer bill. If, after 120 days, a homeowner does not connect, a notice will be filed at the City, which will be located with any future title searches for a property, affecting any future sale on the property.
• The average cost to connect is $25 per foot to the sewer tap.
• Connection notices will include an option to pay the cost of connection over a 36-month term to assist homeowners with the cost of connecting.
• Old septic tanks must be abandoned. Plumbers will need to remove the top of the tank and fill the tank.
• Homeowners will be required to hire a plumber to connect to the sewage tap provided by the City.
Construction is expected to begin in October, 2008 and completion expected in approximately August, 2009.
Homeowners concerned about access to their homes during construction, were assured by Mr. Vaughan that homeowners would be provided the direct contact number to the contractor. Vaughan humorously explained the contractor would not be interested in getting 50 phone calls from neighbors at the end of the day because they could not access their property. There will be both contractual requirements as well as motivation for the contractor to keep access for homeowners by not digging more than can be filled in one day’s work.
Questions from the meeting were answered as follows:
• Contractors will restore fences, sprinkler systems, driveways and sod.
• Contractors will NOT restore Trees and special landscaping.
• The contractor is warranted for a period of one year. In the event a tree died due to nearby construction and damage to roots within that year, the tree would be removed by the contractor.
• The ugly graveled area along Sheridan will finally be sodded upon the completion of the Phase II project.
• Other area neighborhoods undergoing sewer installation presently include Sheridan Park and Fieldstone.
Other contacts for this project include:
Nataliya Scott, Project Manager for the City of Tulsa
Larry Baker, Breisch and Associates
Download plat with sewer lines at foresttrails.us
Forest Trails is slated to receive its long-awaited connection to the city sewer system in 2009. The 1.2 Million dollar project to complete the sewer construction for the Forest Trails neighborhood is currently collecting easement approval. Neighbors petitioned to bring sewer to the remaining homes in the area. A group of homes in the Forest Trails, mostly homes in the center of the platted area, were not connected during the first two phases of sewer installation and remained unsewered since homes were constructed.
No easements will be required for the neighboring subdivision of Sheridan Park but all Forest Trails homeowners must approve easements for construction to begin. While options are available if easements are not granted, the City cannot take an easement for this project by eminent domain.
Matt Vaughn, with the City of Tulsa, said Manholes will be required at each bend in the sewer pipe. The City will attempt to place the connection “T’s” in locations which is the least obtrusive to neighbors.
Connection requirements
• Owners are required to connect to the sewer within 90 days. If a homeowner does not connect within 90 days, the homeowner will begin to receive a sewer bill. If, after 120 days, a homeowner does not connect, a notice will be filed at the City, which will be located with any future title searches for a property, affecting any future sale on the property.
• The average cost to connect is $25 per foot to the sewer tap.
• Connection notices will include an option to pay the cost of connection over a 36-month term to assist homeowners with the cost of connecting.
• Old septic tanks must be abandoned. Plumbers will need to remove the top of the tank and fill the tank.
• Homeowners will be required to hire a plumber to connect to the sewage tap provided by the City.
Construction is expected to begin in October, 2008 and completion expected in approximately August, 2009.
Homeowners concerned about access to their homes during construction, were assured by Mr. Vaughan that homeowners would be provided the direct contact number to the contractor. Vaughan humorously explained the contractor would not be interested in getting 50 phone calls from neighbors at the end of the day because they could not access their property. There will be both contractual requirements as well as motivation for the contractor to keep access for homeowners by not digging more than can be filled in one day’s work.
Questions from the meeting were answered as follows:
• Contractors will restore fences, sprinkler systems, driveways and sod.
• Contractors will NOT restore Trees and special landscaping.
• The contractor is warranted for a period of one year. In the event a tree died due to nearby construction and damage to roots within that year, the tree would be removed by the contractor.
• The ugly graveled area along Sheridan will finally be sodded upon the completion of the Phase II project.
• Other area neighborhoods undergoing sewer installation presently include Sheridan Park and Fieldstone.
Other contacts for this project include:
Nataliya Scott, Project Manager for the City of Tulsa
Larry Baker, Breisch and Associates
How is your sewer bill determined?
The City of Tulsa calculates your charge for sewer service by measuring you lowest amount of water usage in the winter. It is assumed that water used in the winter is the amount going into the sanitary sewer since sprinkler systems are not active and pools are closed.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Invest your Rent
There are hidden costs to renting a home and the loss of investing your monthly payment is the biggest. Homeowners are investing their rent every month while renters are paying into their landlord’s investment account. It is shocking how many people renting a house excuse their decision with “I want to make sure I will be settled before I buy.” Of course, there are times this is prudent, however, most renter who make this excuse have done so or will do so for several years before they make their decision to purchase. It doesn’t take more than a quick glance at a mortgage amortization chart to understand why any real estate professional who cares about his client’s financial well-being would care about procrastinating with a home purchase.
Here’s the simple equation:
The sooner you buy = the longer you stay = the less you owe when you sell your home = MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET
All of this happens with money you would have spent on rent anyway
There is a reason more millionaires are made from real estate than any other investment; it is solid, predictable, useful, and affordable.
Make the decision to take the first step today. Call The Baskin Real Estate Specialists and ask for a free homebuyer consultation. This no-pressure visit is your first step to understanding how your future can improved with some simple decisions today.
918-258-2600
Here’s the simple equation:
The sooner you buy = the longer you stay = the less you owe when you sell your home = MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET
All of this happens with money you would have spent on rent anyway
There is a reason more millionaires are made from real estate than any other investment; it is solid, predictable, useful, and affordable.
Make the decision to take the first step today. Call The Baskin Real Estate Specialists and ask for a free homebuyer consultation. This no-pressure visit is your first step to understanding how your future can improved with some simple decisions today.
918-258-2600
Do Not Call Registry for Cell Phones
REMINDER..less than 10 days from today, all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS. To prevent this, call the following number from YOUR cell phone: 1-888-382-1222. It is the nationsl do not call list. It will only take a minute of your time….it blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number. HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS. It takes about 20 seconds.
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