Is OK okay for us? (Tulsa, Bartlesville: skyscraper, tornado, work)

[Synopsis]

Goodpasture, for you I'll knock off 20% of the asking price. The house, with 5 acres for 900K. I haven't been able to sell it anyway, so I figured I'd come down from the over 1 million dollar asking price it was at before.

[jessaka]

Okay, Synopsis, What is the Jersey Devil? Also, you know we are not supposed to advertise, so what is this your putting up your house for sale? Maybe you and Computer Guy can trade homes. That way no one has to sale anything.

[Synopsis]

Yep. I guess I'll have to take down my "home away from home" off this forum. I didn't really wanna sell anyway.

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

If you find something you like and want more information, let me or Schousse know....we are members of both the OKC and Tulsa MLS systems and have computer access to all the tax records in the state.

THANKS! We appreciate it... You'll even get the co-broke.
It will be good having a connection out there.

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

Find one you want, put a offer on the table contingent on you selling in NH

I don't think I'd put an offer on anything until I was there.
And the market here is moving, but SO SLOWWWWWWLLLLYYY,
we'd end up having to renew the agreement a whole lotta times.
Our place and many others have been on the market since September.

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

Thought Dodge City was in Kansas....is there one in NH too?

Ummmm.... It was an "expression".

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

You should at least make it out for the calf fry festival

THAT sounds good. I'm a total carnivore.
My favorite saying is: "I love animals... They taste great!"

Thanks for the assistance!

M.

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by colleeng47

We are in the process of refinancing our house now so we can take out some money to buy in OK. As soon as the refinancing is done we're putting our house up for sale. Probably in about 10 days. Right now the plan is for myself, DH and DD to fly down January 2 for a few days. We hope to find something we like and put in an offer. Then hopefully close soon enough so we can leave NJ by the end of January, beginning of Februrary. DH will come back and "babysit" the house, and I and my two teenagers will stay in OK. If the house doesn't sell in six months, we're going to rent it out until the market improves. He will continue his job search from New Jersey and if he gets a job before the six months are up, he'll come down and we'll just rent the house out. I really don't want to be an absent landlord, but things are moving SO SLOWLY here with house sales that I'm not planning on it selling. Preparing for the worse, hoping for the best.

Hi colleeng,

Your plan sounds even tougher than ours. I could never be away from my family like that. But... You'll have mostly everything in place by the time you get there.
And... You'll get there before us and grab up the good deals.

Yes, being an absent landlord would have a few bad ramifications... I've seen what people can do to rental houses.

The market here is pretty awful too. We under priced our place by $35K hoping for a quicker sale. It will hurt a little, but will allow us to accomplish our ultimate goals.
We'll struggle a bit, but the way the local economy has been here, we'll be struggling a bit anyway.

Keep us all posted... I'm especially interested in hearing your opinions on OK when you get there... Unless we sell before then... (crossing fingers)

M.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by jessaka

Okay, Synopsis, What is the Jersey Devil? Also, you know we are not supposed to advertise, so what is this your putting up your house for sale? Maybe you and Computer Guy can trade homes. That way no one has to sale anything.

Here you go jessaka. The name of the NJ Hockey Team is named after the Jersey Devil (The New Jersey Devils).

Jersey Devil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And yes, Ok is Okay for you (to stay on topic)!

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by Nameless

ComputerGuy: Have you made any progress in your search? Any particular area you're more interested in now?

We're very interested in Bartlesville or the surrounding areas...
But we're keeping open minds until we actually get to OK in person.

Thanks for asking.

M.

[jessaka]

stay on topic jokes, huh? well, i was just worried that computerguy may have thought that we left him in the oklahoma dirt by our talking about other things, but he doesn't seem to mind.

i think i need to do some research now and see if bartleville is good enough for computerguy.

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by jessaka

Okay, Synopsis, What is the Jersey Devil? Also, you know we are not supposed to advertise, so what is this your putting up your house for sale? Maybe you and Computer Guy can trade homes. That way no one has to sale anything.

I'm from NH, and I've seen rustic in my time, but d*mn... That's just a bit too rustic for me. Reminds me of the Beverly Hillbillies.
But... If there were no neighbors...

I also don't think that's Synopsys' place, it has a URL on top of the photo.
And the price is a little high.... Unless it came with 400 acres or so.

M.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by TheComputerGuy

We're very interested in Bartlesville or the surrounding areas...
But we're keeping open minds until we actually get to OK in person.

Thanks for asking.

M.

I think you're narrowing it down to a pretty good area M. Bartlesville is a really cool city, and Tulsa is as well.