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Karen Keith's ex post facto crusade for unfair zoning - BatesLine
The time of day for the hearing to remove Wright makes it difficult for ordinary homeowners, concerned about fair application of zoning laws and protecting their property values and quality of life, to come downtown to defend one of a … COMES NOW Karen Keith, duly elected Tulsa County Commissioner for District No.2 Tulsa County, Oklahoma and brings this Petition For Removal of Elizabeth Wright as a member of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission ( TMAPC ). … read more…

Behind On My Mindland Mortgage Payments | LoanSafe.org
Most of these homeowners who can no longer afford their mortgage are in serious danger of losing their homes. If you are a homeowner in need os assistance modifying your current mortgage its time to pick up the phone and contact Midland right away. … If you are trying to send a QWR or have credit disputes send use this address: Qualified Written Requests and Credit Disputes Midland Mortgage Co. P.O. Box 268959. Oklahoma City, OK 73126-8959 … read more…

The Guymonator: Foreclosure prevention 101
In common language, this means that a low percent of homeowners who are over burdened by high mortgage payments have been able to work with their financial institutions to adjust their monthly payments and prevent foreclosure. … Susan Barias: Yes, I moved to the Oklahoma Panhandle, No Man’s Land, Guymon, Oklahoma. Population 15000. This move gave me a chance to reinvent my life and to explore my “inner cowgirl”. In the process, I also worked for and got my real estate … read more…

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Choosing A Suitable Tulsa Mortgage
The first step a family has to do after purchasing a home in Tulsa, Oklahoma is to find the most suitable mortgage. Many experts affirm that choosing the right mortgage plan is just as important as bu… read more…

Do You Qualify for a USDA Home Loan Tulsa OK
There are many different types of home loans available when securing financing for your home. A USDA home loan is a great option. Discovering if you qualify for a USDA home loan Tulsa OK, is an opti… read more…

Are You An Ant Or A Grasshopper?
For a number of years the real estate market has been on the increase. Each month or quarter the cost of housing has been steadily on the rise and home buyers have found that purchasing a home in an u… read more…

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Students pass out shots of reality (Tulsa World)
Walking through a simulated high school party wasn’t an ideal Wednesday night for Delise Thomlinson. read more…

First-time homebuyers boost housing market (The Wichita Eagle)
Kansans have used the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit at a comparable rate with surrounding states, according to a national study prepared for Congress. read more…

John Keeley Q3: Buys Nonfinancal Financials and Home Builders (Guru Focus)
Small cap and spin-off Guru John Keeley did very well for many years. But it was tough in 2008. Now he is upbeat with the improving economic conditions and positioned his portfolio accordingly. This is his Q3 portfolio update. Read more » » read more…

Open Question: Is foreclosure a good idea?
heres the deal…
we are upside down in our home that is only in my husbands name and we cannot sell our house in this economy. we have had 1 offer in over a year of having it on the market. We are thinking about letting it go and taking the hit. We can afford it its just we are stuck here and want out. My husband makes 165000$ a year(in oklahoma) and has a $60000 car loan that will be paid off soon and another car loan that will be paid off soon as well.

if we let the house go we will be able to rent a nice house for a couple years and be able to buy things we have not been able to afford in the past and save money for our future ect. so just by what i have read we should be able to bounce back quickly and get a house in 5 years. (I understand that it wont fall off for 7 years) but we have termites and need the roof replaced and owe homeowner dues of 800$ so it just seems logical to take the hit. we tried a short sale with the only offer we had but our lending company wont let us do a short sale!

NEED ADVICE PLEASE
thx
plus my car new was 60000 but now its worth 25000…just the way things go and that 25000 is not going to cover the cost
I simply cannot justify giving up a car that i like and that will be paid off and putting it towards a house that i dont like and that i am upside down and that will be paid off in 25 years. that just means i will have to buy another car no matter what the price and be in debt on a car again. my goal is to have everything paid off beofre i buy another house not go into debt to get rid of a house.

Resolved Question: Is this not beyond a joke?
THE STELLA AWARDS
It’s time again for the annual ‘Stella Awards’! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald’s in New Mexico , where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? That’s right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts.
Here are the Stellas for the past year:

* SEVENTH PLACE *

Kathleen Robertson of Austin ,
Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

Start scratching!

* SIXTH PLACE *

Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor’s hubcaps.

Scratch some more…

* FIFTH PLACE *

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn’t re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count ‘em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner’s insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more…..

Double hand scratching after this one..

* FOURTH PLACE *

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella’s when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor’s beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner’s fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.

Pick a new spot to scratch, you’re getting a bald spot..

* THIRD PLACE *

Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?

Only two more so ease up on the scratching….

*SECOND PLACE*

Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000 …. oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.

Ok. Here we go!!

* FIRST PLACE *

This year’s runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the free-way, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner’s manual that she couldn’t actually leave the driver’s seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?
$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

Are we, as a society, getting more stupid…..

or are more members of Congress serving on juries these days?

Resolved Question: This is no Joke just Facts?
This is all true. Believe or not to believe.
Stella Awards

It’s time again for the annual ‘Stella Awards’! For those unfamiliar
with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck, who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald’s in New Mexico where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right?

That’s right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy. Here are the Stella’s for the past year:

* SEVENTH PLACE*

Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was
running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

Start scratching!

* SIXTH PLACE *

Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angele’s , California won $74,000 plus medical
expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor’s hubcaps. Scratch some more…

* FIFTH PLACE *

Goes to Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn’t re-enter the house, because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count ‘em, EIGHT days, and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner’s insurance company, claiming undue mental anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more. Double hand scratching after this one..

* FOURTH PLACE *

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the
Stella’s when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor’s beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner’s fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for, because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite, because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun. Pick a new spot to scratch, you’re getting a bald spot..

* THIRD PLACE *

Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania wins, because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms .. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? Only two more, so ease up on the scratching….

*SECOND PLACE*

OK. Here we go!!!!!
* FIRST PLACE

This year’s runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs.. Merv
Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot
Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go to the back 20′ of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner’s manual that she couldn’t actually leave the driver’s seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?

$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.