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LISTING OF THE WEEK

HOME TOUR

Garden spot

History at home The 2010 Linwood Place Home Tour will be from 1 to 5 p.m.

Sunday with six homes open to the public.

The Listing of the Week is a well-landscaped garden home near Penn Square Mall.

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WARM AND FUZZY

If the Peter Rabbit prints in your son’s room make you feel warm and fuzzy, by all means integrate them into your kitchen, but add a little whimsy to the frames.

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IN BRIEF

SHORT SALES DEADLINE SOUGHT Kenyon and Brandi Woods, owners of Authentic Custom Homes, stand in front of the House of Hope at 2813 NW 173. The company built the house as a fundraiser for the Oklahoma Builders Foundation’s children’s charities.

PHOTO BY STEVE GOOCH, THE OKLAHOMAN

HOUSE OF HOPE RETURNS FOR 2010 FUNDRAISER | AUTHENTIC CUSTOM HOMES OWNERS SAID THEY WANTED TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK, HELP OUT CHARITY

BY TIM FALL Special Correspondent trfall@gmail.com

When Kenyon and Brandi Woods, owners of Authentic Custom Homes, approached the Oklahoma Home Builders Foundation offering to build the 2010 House of Hope as a fundraiser for children’s charities, it came as something of a surprise considering the lackluster housing market.

Authentic Custom Homes has “actually had a couple of great years,” Kenyon Woods said. “We wanted to give something back.”

The House of Hope, at 2813 NW 173 in the Rosewood addition, will be open free to everyone from 1 to 7 p.m. today and Sunday and during the annual Parade of Homes Oct. 9-17.

Rosewood is east of May between NW 164 and NW 178.

Since 2000, the House of Hope fundraiser has

allowed the Home Builders Foundation to donate about $500,000 to children’s charities, said Mike Gilles, foundation president.

Until this year, the last House of Hope was in 2005. With no builder-donors on the horizon, the foundation hustled to find ways to continue funding its charities, which include “Children’s Christmas,” an annual party given for 50 families with children who are patients at The Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center.

“Last year we had to sell raffle tickets” to meet the party’s $10,000 price tag, said Laurie Matthews, chairman of the Home Builders Care Committee and supporter of the Home Builders Foundation.

It was during a lunch meeting between Matthews and Brandi Woods that a lightbulb flashed on.

“I knew as soon as Laurie told me about the House of Hope, that’s what I wanted

to do,” Brandi Woods said.

The Woodses were looking for a project to underwrite, and the Home Builders Foundation, after a five-year hiatus, was ready to see the project return.

“It was a God thing,” Matthews said.

The Woodses — both graduates of Chickasha High School and the University of Central Oklahoma — decided to jump right in. Their commitment attracted about 40 subcontractors and suppliers.

The resulting home is a 1,824-square-foot, fourbedroom, two-bath layout with a three-car garage and outdoor living space, that lists for $225,000, said Mike Cassidy, an agent with Paradigm AdvantEdge Real Estate.

Kenyon Woods, who was employed with a home design company for nearly eight years before starting Authentic Custom Homes SEE HOPE, PAGE 2F

BUILDERS SHORT ON OPTIMISM A guest bath in the House of Hope, 2813 NW 173, built

by Authentic Custom Homes.

PHOTO BY STEVE GOOCH, THE OKLAHOMAN

Consider preferences before buying home Having plenty of choices is a rent market. But “price per square blessing for homebuyers, but only foot is still a very key factor,” said if they screen through their options John Rygiol, an independent real thoughtfully, said Fred Meyer, a re- estate broker who works solely with purchasers al estate broker and and takes no consumer advocate. listings.

He encourages all Ellen Rygiol said buyers, and especially James it’s not uncomthose who feel overMartin mon to find that whelmed by the sorting a small home process, to carefully can cost significonsider their housing cantly more per preferences before SMART MOVES square foot than starting to shop for a a midsize property in the same home.

Meyer contends that when sort- community. Yet over time, the ing through the housing options midsize home should gain value for their clients, too few real estate more quickly and be more saleable.

“Sometimes the square footage agents use the advanced screening tools available through the Multi- isn’t shown on the MLS listing. In that case, ask your agent to take ple Listing Service.

Here are a few other pointers for measurements for you,” he said.

Factor in bathroom count those looking for a property in an inventory-saturated neighbor- when deciding which properties to visit. hood: Prescreen on the basis of Years ago, it was common for an square footage. entire family to share just one or Granted, mega-size houses have two bathrooms in a home. No one lost a lot of their luster in the cur- protested the need to take turns

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sharing the same bathroom for a shower or a bath.

But as Rygiol points out, the ideal situation nowadays is for every member of the family to have his or her own bathroom. Of course, homes in older communities are likely to have fewer bathrooms than those in recently built subdivisions. But even if you’ve targeted an older community, it’s likely you can find a place that has a bathroom incorporated in an addition.

Make sure the home you buy has “good bones.”

Architects know that a house that is well-designed, structurally sound and energy efficient has considerable hidden value. They say such a home has “good bones.” Such a property typically gives buyers more for their money than do homes that are superficially appealing but have fundamental issues.

In a buyer’s market purchasers can often get an excellent price on a home with good bones whose only problems are superficial, Rygiol

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Homeowners underwater with their mortgage could find some relief is on the way from a bill strongly supported by the National Association of Realtors that would impose a deadline on lenders to respond to short-sale requests. The legislation, H.R. 6133, “Prompt Decision for Qualification of Short Sale Act of 2010,” was filed in Congress by U.S. Reps. Robert Andrews, D-N.J., and Tom Rooney, R-Fla. The bill would require lenders to respond to consumer short sale requests within 45 days. Lenders have improved their short sales staffs but “still have a long way to go on improving response times,” said Realtors President Vicki Cox Golder, owner of Vicki L. Cox & Associates in Tucson, Ariz.

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Making sure the place you buy was solidly built is especially important if you’re determined to own a home built fewer than 10 years ago, Rygiol said. He said that “during the real estate boom, and especially after 2000 but before the recession hit, a lot of the new construction involved shoddy workmanship.”

Take your lifestyle needs into account when comparing floor plans.

When shopping for a home, you should trust your instincts about how a place feels to you after you’ve passed through the front door, said Sid Davis, a real estate broker and author of “A Survival Guide for Buying a Home.”

“A good floor plan is critical to your quality of life. The rooms are well laid out and all in proportion.

In addition, they fit well with your lifestyle,” Davis said.

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E-mail Ellen James Martin at ellenjamesmartin@gmail.com.

UNIVERSAL UCLICK

Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes held unchanged in September from the previous month’s low level of 13, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/ Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Builders nationally haven’t seen any reason for improved optimism in market conditions over the past month, said the trade group’s chairman, Bob Jones, a builder from Bloomfield Hills, Mich. “If anything, consumer uncertainty has increased, and builders feel their hands are tied until potential home buyers feel more secure about the job market and economy,” Jones said.

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Agent joins Covington Co. Anna Covington has joined The Covington Co., 1140 NW 63, as a residential real estate agent.

The lifelong Oklahoma City resident worked for a local interior design company, then was accepted into the Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, Fla. She has extensive sales experience starting from an early age in her mother’s antique store.

Laurie Matthews, chairman of the Home Builders Care Committee, and Mike Gilles, president of the Oklahoma Builders Foundation, show the kitchen of the House of Hope built by Authentic Custom Homes at 2813 NW 173.

PHOTO BY STEVE GOOCH, THE OKLAHOMAN

Hope: Proceeds benefit charities FROM PAGE 1F

in 2006, created the floor plan.

“Maybe it’s because Kenyon is hyper, but we never do the same house twice,” said Brandi, who oversees details such as finish hardware, surfaces and custom materials in the couple’s projects.

The House of Hope, like all the Woodses’ homes, is a “custom plan, with all original features,” Brandi said.

That approach has kept the Woodses busy and prosperous despite an otherwise flat housing market. They’ve built “about 20” homes per year for the past three years, finding a sweet spot for sales “in the $200,000 range” with homes from 1,485 to about 2,000 square feet, Kenyon Woods said.

“I’d be happy to build any size home,” he said, “but that’s what’s been selling.”

Authentic Custom Homes has three other homes completed in the Rosewood addition, two homes in Woodwind, one in Sonoma Lake and a model home in Northampton that will be featured in the Parade of Homes.

In addition to the Children’s Christmas party, proceeds from the sale of the House of Hope will send 30 teenage cancer survivors to Camp Cavett, a five-day camp in Denver scheduled for April 2011.

HOUSE OF HOPE These companies donated to the 2010 House of Hope: 84 Lumber All Season Insulation American Eagle Title Insurance Certified Plumbing Professionals Cindy Crane Design David Kudron Ready Mix Fowler Floors John Stone Supply KB Foundations KB Sand Ken Roberts Grading Lennox Industries Lifestyles Stores Inc. Lopez Masonry Madden Hauling.

Magnum Materials MC Construction Metro Appliances and More Miller Survey Oklahoma Rainmaster Oscar’s Paint Paradigm AdvantEdge/Mike Cassidy ProBuild Quick-Mincey Properties LLC R&H Lawncare Richard Douglas Co. Richard Throgmorton Electric S.C. Designs Scott’s Termite and Pest Control Sherwin-Williams Paint The Cornman Co. HVAC Trinity Brick Sales Valentin Espino Construction Van De Steeg and Associates Wesco Insurance: Agent, Mike Vincent Wild Horse Fireplace Installation Zurich Insurance

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A fountain dominates the Rosewood addition, on the east side of May Avenue between NW 164 and NW 178.

PHOTO BY STEVE GOOCH, THE OKLAHOMAN

Left: A chandelier hangs from a decorative recessed ceiling in the House of Hope.

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Below: Large tiles frame the walk-in shower of the master bathroom in the House of Hope.

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Nursery prints can add whimsy to kitchen DEAR MI-LING: Is it possible to repurpose my Peter Rabbit prints from my son’s nursery to the kitchen? I would like to have a whimsical look but do not know how to create it.

Dee S DEAR DEE: If the Peter Rabbit prints in your son’s room make you feel warm and fuzzy, by all means integrate them into your kitchen, but add a

Mi-Ling Stone Poole ASK MI-LING little whimsy to the frames.

Here are a few ideas to take those nursery prints to a new level.

Change out the old picture frames and mat the prints for a more grown-up look. You can use a thicker and wider frame or repaint the existing frames in bold colors or black and white checks.

Draw your inspiration from the MacKenzieChilds line of decorative products. You can see her kitchen products online at Mackenzie-Childs.com or

on NeimanMarcus.com.

After the prints have been framed, add in a few rabbit statues and maybe a fox to set the tone, then repeat the black and white pattern at least three more times. You can paint a lampshade, buy a few checker-patterned towels or select a beautiful bold rug with a blackand-white or floral print pattern.

If you’re feeling super

confident, paint a set of wooden charger plates for your dishes and mix in a variety of colors pulling from your Peter Rabbit prints. Light blues and greens or tangerine will make the black and white checks pop. Don’t forget the hot colors of the season, plum and purple.

If your son no longer needs the quilt or other themed bedding you can cut those up and make

napkins, place mats or a tablecloth. The key here is to use other scrap fabrics and just a hint of the nursery prints. Again, you’re trying to keep it grown-up and whimsical but repurpose with style.

Now go out and create your own unique comfort zone!

If you have a decorating dilemma, contact Mi-Ling Stone Poole through her website, www.Mi-Ling.com.

New loan program may help solar systems shine

BY STEVE GELSI MarketWatch

BERKELEY, Calif. — For decades, the push for solar power has stalled not on public support, but on cost. That might be about to change with the launch of a tax program that’s exciting some industry veterans.

Gary Garber is one. Garber built his first solar panels from scratch back in 1976. They went up on his parents’ roof top in nearby Walnut Creek, Calif. Today he runs Sun Light & Power, a 60-employee solar panel installation firm that’s been behind some of the San Francisco Bay Area’s biggest solar power arrays.

Like many other “alternative” industries, solar energy has gradually gone mainstream, scaling up operations, driving down costs — even partnering with local governments to promote renewable energy.

Yet it still generates less than 1 percent of the nation’s electricity. Why? Because a typical residential system’s $25,000 price tag is a huge hurdle for most homeowners.

Clearing that hurdle is the main mission behind an effort gaining momentum around the country called Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE. It allows people to borrow money from municipalities for energy efficiency upgrades and pay it back through their property taxes.

Gerber said the key to the program’s success is that energy savings paid

for by PACE can be used to offset those higher property taxes.

“Let’s say you replace your $100 utility bill with a $100-a-month payment to your property taxes — it’s pretty close to a wash,” said Gerber, who also is president of the California Solar Energy Industries Association. “And if it isn’t a wash this year, then two or three years from now it will be, because energy costs are going up.

“You’re basically saying, ‘I’m going to pay the same amount for energy for the next 20 years. I’m going to peg my energy cost to today’s costs.’ That’s pretty

compelling.”

PACE was launched in 2007 as a pilot project hatched by Cisco DeVries, a former assistant to the Berkeley mayor. When the Berkeley test took off, states began passing legislation to allow municipalities to create their own programs. DeVries now

works as president of Renewable Funding LLC, a private company that helps cities start PACE programs.

At last count, 19 states have passed PACE legislation, including Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, New York, Massachusetts and Maine.

Some local govern-

ments, such as Sonoma County, Calif., in the San Francisco metro area, and Boulder, Colo., have set up PACE programs on their own. Sonoma’s is called Sonoma County Energy Independence Program.

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Buyer fears defects in bank-owned property DEAR BARRY: We are buying a foreclosed home from a bank and are concerned about three issues.

There is a plumbing leak in the upstairs bathroom, with water dripping from the garage ceiling.

The previous owner agreed to leave the window treatments but took them, as well as the kitchen range, when she moved.

And there are numerous holes in the drywall in several rooms. What can we do about these problems? Do we have recourse against the previous owner?

Cyndi DEAR CYNDI: When you buy a bank-owned property, it is usually an as-is sale. Banks are interested in cutting their losses by getting these foreclosed properties off their books. But there are exceptions, depending on the kinds of defects involved.

In some cases, buyers or their agents are able to negotiate for repairs, but these instances are rare.

In the case of an active plumbing leak, you’ve got a fair chance, but don’t delay on this because prolonged leakage can cause further problems, such as mold. Holes in the drywall are cosmetic defects, unlikely to be considered by the bank.

The former owner apparently was not very responsible or ethical, considering the physical damage to the property and failure to leave fixtures, as promised. But all of that is history and not worth pursuing. Wall damage is easily patched, and you’ll probably enjoy new fixtures in place of the old ones that were taken.

Your decision now is whether to buy a home that needs some repairs or to cancel the sale. If the purchase price is good, and the cost of repairs is not too high, this may still be a good deal. To gain some perspective on this, get some quotes for physical repairs and replacement of fixtures. And above all, be

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sure to hire an experienced home inspector for a more complete list of defects.

DEAR BARRY: When I bought my house, the home inspector found no problems with the roof.

But last winter the roof started leaking in several places. So I went into the attic and found buckets under several of the leaks.

Two of the buckets were filled and overflowing.

Shouldn’t my home inspector have said something about this?

Cheryl DEAR CHERYL: If your home inspector went into the attic, something should have been said about the buckets. There is only one reason to install buckets in an attic, and this should be obvious to every professional home inspector. When pails, wash tubs, old coffee cans or buckets are seen in an attic, past or current leakage is evident, and an extra-careful eval-

uation of the roof is in order. If the roofing material looks new, the buckets are probably left over from previous leaks.

If the roofing does not appear new, further evaluation by a licensed roofing contractor is in order.

If your home inspector inspected the attic and said nothing about the buckets, he was professionally negligent. If he didn’t inspect the attic, he was either professionally negligent or inconveniently corpulent. Either way, he wasn’t doing his job.

To write to Barry Stone, visit him at www.housedetective.com.

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When you buy a bank-owned property, it is usually an as-is sale. Banks are interested in cutting their losses by getting these foreclosed properties off their books. But there are exceptions, depending on the kinds of defects involved.

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Linwood Place to put history on display EVENT | VOLUNTEERS AND SOME RESIDENTS WILL WEAR VINTAGE CLOTHING FOR SUNDAY’S TOUR FEATURING SIX HOMES

BY TIM FALL Special Correspondent trfall@gmail.com

For 22 years, Karen and Dewayne Horton have called Linwood Place home — they’re only the third family to inhabit the house at 3232 NW 20 since it was built in 1930.

Linwood Place is a neighborhood that keeps a tight grip on its history.

With antique cars parked around featured homes and volunteers dressed in period clothing, the historic neighborhood will open six distinctive houses for the 2010 Linwood Place Home Tour from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets can be purchased in advance for $10 at 23rd Street Antique Mall, 3023 NW 23; Norwalk Furniture, 12100 N May Ave.; and Prairie Thunder Baking Co. in the Plaza Court building at NW 10 and Walker Avenue. Tickets also can be purchased at the door of any tour house for $12.

The Horton home The Horton home, which will serve as the tour’s Hospitality House, has been painstakingly maintained, though it remains structurally unchanged — almost — after 80 years.

Based on a house the original owners saw in Florida — reproduced in what was called the “country estates” of Linwood Place — the Horton home is a 2,900-squarefoot design in the Spanish style that stands apart from the Craftsman and Tudor cottages usually associated with the neighborhood.

All work the Hortons have done has been with an eye toward “keeping the integrity of the house,” Karen Horton said.

Care has been taken to protect the original wood trim and details such as brass fleur-de-lis motif doorknobs throughout the house.

Craftsmanship honored The Horton home, like others in Linwood Place, features “the kind of craftsmanship it’s impossible to reproduce today,” said Deborah Saunders, a resident and a member of the committee that organizes the annual tour.

The newly remodeled kitchen is the only place in the home where a wall has been removed — during an earlier renovation.

“There used to be a hall and a pantry, for grocery deliveries,” Horton said, but it cramped the kitchen. Today, the room has been opened up to create a central countertop and a better flow.

The sunroom originally was a porch, but sometime in the home’s history casement windows were added. Too many Oklahoma changes of season got the better of the windows, so the Hortons replaced them, and the room became Karen’s home office.

Horton said she is proudest of the “most peaceful” place on the property: the pool and outdoor living area she and Dewayne added in 2008.

The serenity of the deck, landscaping and waterfall are only occasionally interrupted — by Daisy and Bailey, the Hortons’ golden retrievers.

The sunroom of Karen Horton’s home at 3232 NW 20 in the Linwood Place neighborhood.

2010 LINWOOD PLACE HOME TOUR The 2010 Linwood Place Home Tour will be from 1 to 5 p.m.

Sunday.

This year’s tour homes include: 3341 NW 20, a Tudor-style buff brick home owned by Zachary Colorio. The two-bedroom home features a kiva-style fireplace finished with Mexican tile work, a tray ceiling with updated spotlighting and original woodwork and crystal doorknobs.

3408 NW 21, home of new owner Kathy Edzards, who has spent the past few months repainting the exterior and interior of the 1931 bungalow. The living and dining rooms are full of historic detail, including a beautiful fireplace, original mahogany woodwork, modified Pullman ceiling and refinished hardwood floors. The large kitchen includes granite countertops and a banquette eating area.

3243 NW 19, the home of Jason and Karen Kosanke, is a 1925 Colonial Revival home once owned by Oklahoma City Mayor O.A. Cargill. The fourbedroom, two-bath home has a large foyer, a spacious living room and study lined with built-in bookcases.

3208 NW 20, a five-bedroom, 2½bath clinker brick home built in 1927, has been Lynda Kruse’s home since 1975. The home features original wood beams, arched doorways and a formal living room with builtin bookshelves. The kitchen was remodeled in 2001 and 2 upstairs bathrooms were remodeled in 2007.

3420 NW 19, the home of Gerardo and Ginger Lugo-Lizalde.

This 1939 home has hardwood floors and original hardware throughout, with a plantation-shuttered living room filled with antique accents. The side porch bids guests to relax and sip cool drinks.

Tickets for the tour can be purchased in advance for $10 at 23rd Street Antiques Mall, 3023 NW 23; Norwalk Furniture, 12100 N May Ave.; and Prairie Thunder Baking Co. in the Plaza Court building at NW 10 and Walker Avenue. Tickets can also be purchased at the door of any tour house for $12.

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Karen Horton sits with her dogs Bailey, left, and Daisy in the backyard of her home at 3232 NW 20. The Horton home will be the Hospitality House at the annual Linwood Place neighborhood tour Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.

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This Linwood Place home, at 3208 NW 20, is owned

by Lynda Kruse.

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Kathleen Edzards’ home at 3408 NW 21 is among those on the Linwood Place home tour Sunday.

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The Zachary Colorio home at 3341 NW 20 is one of six on the Linwood Place home tour from 1 to 5 p.m.

Sunday.

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Dewayne and Karen Horton’s home at 3232 NW 20 was built as a replica of one in Florida in 1930.

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Yesteryear relived Tour volunteers and some residents are expected to be wearing vintage costumes for the tour.

For a day, residents want Linwood Place to feel like it did early last century, “when this was way out of town,” Saunders said.

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Jaon and Karen Kosanke own this house at 3243, one of six on the annual Linwood Place home tour Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. PHOTO BY PAUL B. SOUTHERLAND, THE OKLAHOMAN

Gerardo and Ginger Lugo-Lizalde own this house at 3420 NW 19 in the Linwood Place neighborhood.

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Stone Mill home show today, Sunday in Yukon FROM STAFF REPORTS

YUKON — Yukon National Bank, the developer and five homebuilders will have a new home show from noon to 5 p.m. today and Sunday in the Stone Mill addition.

The addition is west of Mustang Road a mile north of Interstate 40.

The five builders will have eight houses open free to everyone.

Homes and builders

› 416 Stone Mill Blvd.,

by Jim Weaver & Bryan Weaver Homes.

413 Stone Mill Blvd.,

by Coy League Homes.

409 Stone Mill Blvd., 2225 Waterford Lane and 2229 Waterford Lane, by John Nail Construction.

2120 Waterford Lane and 2220 Waterford Lane,

by Crabtree Custom Homes.

2228 Waterford Lane,

by Montgomery Homes Inc.

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John Nail Construction built this 3,040-square-foot, three- or four-bed, 3½-bath home at 2229 Waterford Lane.

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Coy League Homes Inc. built this 3,200-square-foot home at 413 Stone Mill Blvd.

The home has three bedrooms and four bathrooms.

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Jim Weaver & Bryan Weaver Homes built this 3,354square-foot home at 416 Stone Mill Blvd. The traditional-style home has three bedrooms and 3½ baths.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY YUKON NATIONAL BANK

Right: Crabtree Custom Homes built this 2,816square-foot home at 2220 Waterford Lane.

The French Country-style home has three bedrooms and 2½ baths.

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Left: Montgomery Homes Inc. built this 2,390-square-foot home at 2228 Waterford Lane.

The traditional-style home has four bedrooms and three baths.

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Sales associate joins Paradigm AdvantEdge Anita Ingram has joined Paradigm AdvantEdge Real Estate’s south office at 1530 SW 119 as a sales associate.

The Oklahoma City native studied business at Oklahoma City Community College and worked for a number of years in sales for BMI, a regional office equipment company. She obtained her real estate license six years ago.

Anita Ingram

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Graham Nash leaves California home for Hawaii

BY LAUREN BEALE

photography books of his own work.

The Nashes bought the house in 1986 for $900,000, according to public records.

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LOS ANGELES — Their house is a very, very, very fine house, to borrow Graham Nash’s own lyrics.

The singer-songwriter, whose work included such hits as “Our House,” “Marrakesh Express” and “Carrie Anne,” and his wife, Susan, listed their Encino, Calif., home for sale at $1.6 million, and five days later it was in escrow.

The Tudor house has formal living and dining rooms, leaded-glass windows and skylights. There are six bedrooms, 6½ bathrooms and more than 4,600 square feet of living space. The gated property includes a pool with spa.

Nash has used the home as a place to compose as well as a center for family life and entertaining. His

A new White House?

Singer-songwriter Graham Nash and his wife, Susan, listed their Encino, Calif., home for sale at $1.6 million, and five days later it was in escrow.

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favorite place to hang out is in the paneled den by the fireplace. He has written

Actors Jane Kaczmarek and husband Bradley Whitford in a 2007 file photo.

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songs on the grand piano by the window in the living room and in the guesthouse recording studio.

The couple, who raised their three children in the house, plan to live in Hawaii full time.

The two-time inductee

into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, who started with the Hollies, is on a Crosby, Stills & Nash U.S. tour. He appeared on the “American Idol” Season 7 finale in 2008 singing his ’70s hit “Teach Your Children.”

Nash, 68, has published

Actress Jane Kaczmarek and actor Bradley Whitford have sold their Italian Renaissance Revival villa in San Marino for $6.2 million, the Multiple Listing Service shows, and Whitford has bought a house in Pasadena, Calif., for $3.1 million.

The 1924 mansion they sold sits on more than an acre with formal gardens, a swimming pool, a spa and a guesthouse. The 5,593square-foot main house and the guesthouse total 6,769 square feet of living space. There are six bedrooms and six bathrooms total.

Kaczmarek, 54, played long-suffering wife and mother Lois on “Malcolm in the Middle” (2000-06) and Judge Trudy Kessler on “Raising the Bar” (2008-09). She is also the voice of a judge on “The Simpsons” (2001-10).

Whitford, 50, starred as deputy chief of staff Josh Lyman on “The West Wing” (1999-2006) and as Danny Tripp on “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” (2006-07).

The couple, who filed for divorce last year, purchased the property in 2004 for $5.9 million, according to public records.

The renovated Foursquare-style home Whitford purchased has five bedrooms, four bathrooms and more than 4,000 square feet of living space.

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Some homeowners are opting to remove pools

BY CAROLE FELDMAN The Associated Press

Mike Eckman’s backyard swimming pool was “a good friend” for years, but with his children now grown it was hardly being used — and it needed costly repairs.

So he and his family decided to have it removed, instead.

“The pool served its life,” said Eckman, of Bridgewater, N.J. He hired All Pool Demolition in Midland Park, N.J., to do the job. Owner John Panariello said people often cite the same reasons as Eckman in choosing to get rid of pools. “They have to fix them and they’re very expensive,” Panariello said.

Having a backyard pool is one of those luxuries a lot of people dream of. But a growing business exists in removing them. Besides the cost of repairs and maintenance, people sometimes remove a pool out of concern that it might be a turnoff to homebuyers. Some parents with young children worry about safety. Other homeowners want to reclaim their backyards.

All told, there are about 5 million in-ground residential pools in the United States, said Kirstin Pires, spokeswoman for the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals. As the housing market has declined, so has the installation of new residential pools, by 58 percent last year and nearly 12 percent in 2008, Pires said.

There are no such statistics on pool removal, she said, but anecdotally “it’s pretty unusual.”

Nevertheless, Panariello has found demand increasing for his pool removal services. He estimates that his company has removed between 900 and 1,100 pools since the 1980s.

The process takes about three working days during a three-week period. Permits have to be obtained, utilities disconnected and water pumped out. The liner must be removed and the deck broken down.

“There’s nothing left except for the concrete and maybe the wire that’s in the deck, Panariello said.

And a big hole.

The concrete is broken up and either carted away or buried, depending on local laws and regulations.

“It was an expensive toy. We do miss it.”

BARBARA ROWAN, OF EMERSON, N.J., WHO INSTEAD OF REPAIRING HER POOL HAD IT REMOVED AND PUT IN A PATIO AND HOT TUB

Left: The remains of a swimming pool and pool house are shown at a home in Woodbridge Township, N.J. Having a backyard pool is one of those luxuries a lot of people dream of. But some homeowners are opting to remove old pools rather than repair them.

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If You Have Something To Sell Classified Can Do It — Call 475-3000 Most of the other materials are recycled, he said.

After an inspection, the hole is backfilled with clean dirt and the area is graded. Two weeks later, the company covers the area with top soil and seeds it.

Pool removal costs $5,000 to $8,000, Panariello said. That sum can be recouped within one to three years, he said, if you consider the cost of maintaining a pool.

Barbara Rowan, of Emerson, N.J., paid All Pool Demolition about $8,000 to remove her pool

last year. She said a broken pipe had caused erosion damage, leading to structural concerns. It would have cost about $30,000 to rebuild the pool, she said. Instead, she had it filled in, and put in a new patio and hot tub.

Rowan and her husband hope to retire in a couple of years. “A pool isn’t always a selling feature in our area,” she said, even though it was important in their decision to buy the house in the first place.

“It was an expensive toy,” she said. “We do miss it.”

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When space is too open, try creating wall

BY ROSE BENNETT GILBERT Creators Syndicate

Q: Our Victorian home has two parlors. They open into each other through a large doorway where there used to be pocket doors — we can see the pockets but some previous owner took out the doors. There is also a doorway into the entry on one wall opposite the fireplace, and a bay window located at the front.

With all these openings, I am having a hard time arranging the furniture. Any help would be appreciated.

A: Where there’s a will, there’s a wall, to misquote the phrase. You’ll have to arrange your furniture to create the suggestion of a wall. There are a couple of well-tested ways to go about that, each substituting a sofa or love seat for an actual wall.

First idea: Place the sofa across the opening into the second parlor, facing into the front room. If you back the sofa with a narrow table and set a lamp at either end, you will effectively differentiate the two spaces. The sofa-table-lamps arrangement will be the centerpiece. Add a couple of armchairs with a cocktail table — and perhaps an area rug — between, and your space will become a comfortable, selfcontained room that focuses in on itself.

Second idea: Same arrangement — sofa across the opening between parlors — but this time, fill the opening literally with a tall standing screen. Jim Hawes, designer with Caldwell Beebe (www.caldwellbeebe.com), used a tall, eight-panel screen

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to baffle the gaping double door in the pictured room. Hawes built around a palette of creamy neutrals and understated surprises, such as the celery silk mohair on the sofa and the curtains striped with coral, green and yellow. Against this sotto voce background, the double helping of sunset colors in the over-mantel paintings adds a welcome touch of spice.

Filling spaces

Q: Our new home has ceilings that are 15 feet high in several places. Over the dining room table and in the great room are places where I am having problems with decorating. I’ve hung a really large (3-foot-by-5-foot) painting over the sofa, but it just disappears in all that space. What else can you recommend?

A: Large spaces demand large, eye-filling objects. A large tapestry, for example, hung from a decorative metal or wooden rod should look proportionate to your tall ceiling. Or try a collection of artworks in a well-balanced arrangement — that is, compatibly framed and hung close enough together to be seen as a unit. Think “Gestalt,” a “unified whole.”

There are other ways to bring down the height of an over-high ceiling. Tall pieces of furniture, such as a tall clock, a large bookcase, an armoire or a secretary, will bridge the visual gap. You can also use a hanging light, say, with an opaque shade, dropped low over a dining table or seating group. Its circle of light will claim a cozy, inviting area within the overall space.

Jim Sturdy

Drawers are more accessible than overhead cabinets for storing dinnerware and are a feature in homes designed for “aging in place."

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Seniors embrace ‘aging in place’

BY JEAN PATTESON The Orlando Sentinel

The new catchphrase among homeowners is “aging in place.”

Instead of selling their homes and moving into retirement villages or assisted-living quarters, a growing number of older Americans are modifying their homes to make them more user-friendly as they age.

The concept has caught on so successfully, it even has its own National Aging in Place Week, which will be Oct. 11-16 this year.

“Aging in place is a near and dear subject,” said Karen Kassik, president of Home Accessibilities, a residential design company that focuses on building barrier-free homes.

The inspiration for the company was Kassik’s experience with her mother, who moved into Kassik’s newly remodeled home in Casselberry, Fla., while recovering from foot surgery in 2002. Thinking the visit would last only a few months, Kassik installed her mother in the master suite while she moved into the tiny guest bedroom.

But it soon became apparent her mother would not be able to live alone again.

Kassik’s 1,300-squarefoot house, with its narrow doorways and awkward steps, was unsuited to someone struggling to get around with a walker.

Rather than remodel a second time, Kassik decided to build a larger, more-accessible home in the same neighborhood.

“I designed it with wider door openings, a shower with no doors or steps, and a kitchen with more storage at waist level.

My mother has complete access to anywhere inside and outside the house, and we both have our privacy,” Kassik said.

“Going through that experience brought to light how many clients in their 50s and 60s could benefit from incorporating these kinds of features into their homes, whether they’re building new or remodeling.”

Since launching Home

Accessibilities in January, Kassik has discovered that many features benefiting the elderly also work for young children, from lever-style door handles to low-level storage in drawers rather than overhead cabinets. Instead of “aging-in-place homes,” she uses the terms “multigenerational” or “universal” for the houses she designs.

Her interest in agefriendly homes also led her to help launch a local chapter of the National Aging in Place Council, a network of professionals from the private, public and nonprofit sectors who can help retirees plan for their housing needs. (For more information, go to ageinplace.org) The reasons for the aging-in-place trend are demographic, economic and cultural, said Jim Lucia, a home designer and general contractor with Lucia & Monday Architecture in Winter Park, Fla. The baby boomers now reaching retirement age tend to be healthier and more independent than previous generations and are not ready to give up homeownership when they retire.

The weak economy means fewer Americans can afford the move into retirement facilities — even if they manage to sell their homes in this depressed market. And among some fast-growing ethnic groups, including Hispanic and Asian, it is traditional for older family members to share living quarters with the younger generations.

“We’re doing more and more remodeling for couples who want to grow old in their own home. Or we’re adding a suite onto the kids’ home,” Lucia said.

“People are living longer. Many of them don’t want to be alone or maintain a home alone. And as they age, family is becoming more important. I’m definitely doing more three-generation homes now than five years ago.”

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Jim Sturdy joins Paradigm Jim Sturdy has joined Paradigm AdvantEdge Real Estate, 16301N May Ave., as a real estate sales associate.

He has a degree in education from Midwest Christian College in Oklahoma City and a master’s degree in business from Oklahoma City University.

He has worked for the state Department of Human Services and as director of several nonprofit organizations. He was the director of technology for Deer Creek Public Schools. He became a Realtor two years ago and has earned the Graduate Realtor Institute professional designation.

A tall upholstered screen stands in for the wall that isn’t there.

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More families seeking simpler lifestyles TREND | MODERN HOMESTEADERS ASPIRE TO LOW-IMPACT LIVING AND BELIEVE IN FRUGALITY AND HARD WORK

BY VIRGINIA A. SMITH The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — On this hot summer morning in suburban Collegeville, Pa., the Fraser children bounce out of bed and race downstairs. They’re not running for the TV — they don’t have one.

Instead, 10-year-old twins Eliza and Carolina and their brother, Perry, 6, head for the barn, where the hens are cooing and a baby rooster practices his wake-up call. They’re already old hands at egghunting.

“I found one!” Perry shrieks.

In no time at all, he and his sisters collect five of these fresh eggs, soon to be scrambled into a delicious pile for breakfast.

Megan and Scott Fraser and their children live in an 18th-century house with a barn on two Pennsylvania acres, about halfway between the King of Prussia and Plymouth Meeting malls, in a keep-to-yourself neighborhood of longtime, working-class folks and newer residents.

The Frasers aren’t pioneers or homesteaders, as those terms are commonly understood: They haven’t abandoned city for country, or turned their backs on technology.

The family is fully wired, with iPhone, GPS, Kindle, and iPad, and the children trade chores for computer time. But in their own way, as generations before had, the Frasers have gone back to the land.

People all across the country are keeping bees and raising chickens, gardening and canning.

Though statistics are hard to come by in this diffuse movement, there are indicators of the trend: Up to 200,000 hobbyists keep bees in the United States, compared with 75,000 in the mid-1990s, according to Kim Flottum, editor of Bee Culture magazine.

“It’s the greatest positive change I’ve seen since I started in this job 23 years ago,” Flottum said.

About 100 new members a day sign up for www.backyardchickens.com, which has 55,000 total. The numbers started taking off two years ago.

“It’s really a trend across all demographics,” founder Rob Ludlow said.

And 43 million American households planted vegetable gardens in 2009, a jump of 19 percent over 2008, which was 10 percent higher than 2007, according to the National Gardening Association.

The Frasers do it all.

They grow organic vegetables and fruit. They raise bees, chickens, ducks and pigs for honey, eggs and meat. They spin yarn from rabbit fur and put up enough tomato soup, applesauce and berries to last

Scott Fraser inspects beehives with his wife, Megan, right, and daughter, Eliza, on their family farm in Collegeville, Pa. The family grows and raises some of its foods.

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from the dropout hippies.

They’re way different from the ultimate 20th-century homesteaders, the late Helen and Scott Nearing.

These vegetarian pacifists ate their homegrown food raw, shunned electricity and indoor plumbing, and spent a half-century building a life of “monastic simplicity” on farms in Vermont and Maine.

Mainstream simplicity

Eliza Fraser feeds the chickens at the family farm in Collegeville, Pa. The family grows and raises some of its foods.

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the winter.

They aren’t purists, to be sure.

Though without a TV — whose sole purpose, Megan believes, is “to sell you stuff” — the family watches movies on a computer screen. Cars and airconditioners put them squarely on the grid, and unlike die-hard homesteaders, they don’t homeschool their children, who go to Penn View Christian School near Souderton, Pa. Still, Megan, 37, and Scott, 42, who met at Eastern University in St. Davids and married in 1996, want to live a selfsufficient life, as best they can.

Some observers think people like the Frasers represent a fundamental societal change — one that doesn’t require complete

Eliza Fraser climbs a fence at the family farm in Collegeville, Pa. The family grows and raises some of its foods.

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dependence on the land, but does reclaim domesticity as a valued career.

These folks are different

Modern homesteaders aspire to a simple, lowimpact lifestyle and believe in frugality and hard work.

But they aren’t extreme.

Just the opposite: They’re mainstream.

Cheryl Long, editor of Mother Earth News, founded in 1970 during the counterculture’s heyday, sees it this way: “I think there’s been a shift in focus for Americans today — away from their jobs and their toys, their consumer goods, and back to paying a little more attention to … day-to-day living.”

This shift may feel new, but is actually part of a

“large and basic impulse to return to nature,” said John Pettegrew, an associate history professor at Lehigh University who studies

20th-century American thought and culture.

Throughout our history, he said, “model communities,” utopian experiments, and communes have been stoked by “isms,” such as socialism, feminism, fundamentalism, environmentalism.

For all their differences, Pettegrew said, past and present adventurers share “a sense of mindfulness, as in, ‘We’re not going to just mindlessly follow social conventions. We’re going to rethink these things.’”

With a recession on, said Juliet B. Schor, sociology professor at Boston College, self-sufficiency is “more economically sensible to more people.”

“I don’t think I’d go so far as to say … that it’s actually going to supplant the dominant culture,” said Schor, author of “Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth,” “but I think it’s an important movement … we’re going to see more of.”

For the Frasers, it’s not about saving money.

“It’s about quality of food, quality of life,” Scott Fraser said. “I’m psyched about this life. I just love being at home.”

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LISTING OF THE WEEK

The Listing of the Week is at 2217 NW 44.

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Well-landscaped garden home sporting new roof The Listing of the Week is a well-landscaped garden house near Penn Square Mall.

The 1,854-square-foot house has two bedrooms, two baths and a two-car garage. The living room has a fireplace and ceiling fan. The kitchen has a

Picturesque Langford packs plenty into space The Langford is a small, picturesque home that could be built as a vacation cottage or a year-round residence for a small family. It offers a little more than 1,000 square feet of living space.

Old-fashioned shutters flank the front windows as well as the door, and square posts branch into decorative threes that support the porch roof. Overhead, three matching gabled dormers face the street.

The vaulted living room is open to the second floor, and a fireplace nestles into the stairway alcove at its rear.

Light washes into the living room through stacked windows on the side of the house, plus multiple panes in the front door. The upper side windows are single panes, taller than the multipane rectangles below, and angled in at the top to form a peak that accentuates the shape of the steep gable above.

To the left is the dining area, which is open to the living room but has a flat one-

story ceiling. The kitchen is a room unto itself, with direct passageways on each end that link to the living and dining areas. With an opening above the kitchen sink, workers can converse with people in those areas, or pass food through for placement on the dining table.

A powder room and utility room are at the rear. The utility room has exterior access and can double as a mud room.

The Langford’s owners’ suite and sleeping loft share a bathroom on the second level. Cozy window seats could be built into one or all of the dormers, which also make pleasant desk, sewing or display alcoves.

For a review plan, including scaled floor plans, elevations, section and artist’s conception, send $25 to Associated Designs, 1100 Jacobs Drive, Eugene, OR, 97402.

Please specify the Langford 42-014 and include a return address when ordering. For more information, call (800) 634-0123.

Don’t take drab bedroom lying down

BY DEBBIE ARRINGTON McClatchy News Service

Some rooms scream — “Help!” Others say nothing, and that’s a problem, too.

Take the typical bedroom. Michael Payne has seen thousands.

“The bedroom tends to get forgotten — you spend all your money elsewhere in the house,” said Payne, a celebrity interior designer and makeover specialist best known for his “Designing for the Sexes” series on HGTV. “You end up with a totally forgettable room that you don’t want your best friend to see.”

Helping people find indoor harmony — particularly at affordable prices — is a common challenge for designers. Instead of moving, homeowners are staying put and trying to make the most of their current house.

“This has been the busiest year I’ve ever had,” said Folsom, Calif., interior designer Jennifer FaGalde.

“Absolutely, a lot of people are wanting to stay put and put money into their own home instead of moving.

“They’re creating a nest

QUICK BEDROOM MAKEOVER Makeover specialist Michael Payne offers these suggestions: Less is more. An uncluttered bedroom makes for a more restful space. Make use of area under the bed for storage.

Remember: It’s a bedroom. The bed should be the dominant feature. Other furnishings are secondary, but look better if they match in style, wood and stain.

Start with the right bedspread or comforter. Use that to pick up colors for paint and carpeting. The result will be more harmonious.

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within their own space,” she added. “People are staying home more now than they did five, 10 years ago. They want a sanctuary where they can relax.”

But where to start?

Paint, lighting and flooring are three of the easiest, quickest and least expensive ways to update a room, say the experts.

Arizona Tile’s in-house designer Emitt Isaacks advises people to start makeovers with a very basic question: Who lives in your home?

“A retired couple is very different than a family with young kids. They have different needs and considerations,” he said.

“Don’t forget dogs and

cats. Pets influence (design) decisions, too. Then, start thinking about style — modern, traditional, old-school — and color.”

Lighting is key, “especially in older homes,” she added. “They’re too dark.

Lighting enhances your space and shows off the investment you put into it.

You spend money on paint and flooring, you want to be able to see it.”

“Most people have furniture that was given them. They never would have bought it,” he said. “It becomes an obligation and very unfair,” Payne said.

“Instead, people should surround themselves with things they love. And remember: Less is more.”

Air-conditioning tips to keep things cool

BY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE INFORMATION SERVICES

Here are some tips for keeping your air conditioning running smoothly during the ultra-hot months and what to do if it breaks down from Deborah Evans, owner of Evans Heating & Cooling in Elgin, S.C.: Change the air filter once a month.

Don’t use the ultra-thick, expensive filters because they will restrict air flow and cause the unit to work harder.

Have the unit maintained twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall If the unit ices over from a coolant

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leak or from being clogged with debris, turn off the thermostat and use a water hose to defrost it faster. Once it is defrosted, you can turn it back on for a cool blast while you wait for a repairman.

If the heating and air company has an unacceptably long waiting list, shop around for someone who can fix it faster or ask for a loaner window unit to stay cool while you wait.

The unit might be doing all it can. Most units will drop the temperature inside only 20 degrees from what it is outside.

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breakfast bar and stainless-steel appliances. The master bedroom has a bath with whirlpool tub and a ceiling fan. The home has crown moldings and large base moldings, a security system, new roof and new water heater. The home has an open deck.

Built in 1999, it is listed for $202,000 with Rick Terrell of Metro First Realty. For more information, call 242-4004.

Nominations for Listing of the Week are welcome. Send information on single-family homes to The Oklahoman, Richard Mize, P.O. Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. Nominations may be faxed to 475-3996.

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IRS has trouble tracking tax credit claims WASHINGTON — The federal homebuyer since first-time purchasers in 2008 were tax credit programs have been widely limited to tax credits up to $7,500 that praised for stimulating real esmust be repaid over a tate sales, but also reviled by 15-year period. By concritics who see the credits as a trast, purchasers who multibillion-dollar waste of Kenneth opted to claim a revised the government’s money. version of the credit Harney Now a new audit raises during 2009 — for up to questions about the ability of $8,000 — were not the Internal Revenue Service to subject to the annual handle key basics of the pro- THE NATION’S HOUSING repayment requiregrams, such as determining the ment. year credit claimants actually purchased Out of approximately 1.77 million credit their houses, whether they have retained filings during 2009, auditors said they the property as a principal residence, and identified 73,119 individual returns from even if they were alive when a tax credit taxpayers who received credits whose acapplication was submitted in their name. count records at the IRS had incorrect — or The Treasury Department’s inspector no — purchase dates. general’s audit for tax administration Beyond these claims, 514,987 tax credit praised the IRS for its recent efforts to de- requests contained purchase dates that velop a “comprehensive strategy” to keep “cannot be verified” because the data were track of the credit programs but identified not “captured” by IRS computers. deficiencies in a small but significant numThe Treasury’s inspector general also ber of cases involving claims for credits. focused on another set of problems: the For example, auditors found that the IRS IRS’s lack of systems to enforce the various has had trouble distinguishing between “recapture” and “accelerated repayment” houses purchased during 2008 and those provisions that Congress included in the bought in 2009. housing tax credit programs.

This can be an important distinction “Currently, the IRS does not have the

ability to identify individuals” who received the homebuyer credit but subsequently may not retain the property as their principal residence — a key requirement imposed by Congress. For the $7,500 credit covering purchases made from April 9, 2008, through Jan. 30, 2009, recipients who sell the home before the end of the 15year payback period are expected to repay the credit to the IRS “immediately” — on the tax filing for the year in which the home is sold.

In the case of the 2009-era credits — up to $8,000 for first-time buyers, $6,500 for qualified repeat purchasers — the credit must be repaid if the home is sold within three years of acquisition. The repayment is due on the taxpayer’s return filed in the year of the sale. Because the IRS has no systems in place to detect early sales or conversions of properties from principal residences, auditors said, it must rely on individuals to disclose such information voluntarily. The agency is now developing systems to keep track of repayment and recapture events using third-party sources of real estate and other data, said the report.

Auditors also found the IRS has no sys-

tem at present to identify situations that allow certain taxpayers to bypass recapture rules, such as the death of the homeowner, foreclosures where there is no gain to the taxpayer, and extended overseas duty assignments of armed forces and other personnel that prevent them from occupying their houses.

Still another deficiency, auditors said, is IRS’s handling of homebuyer tax credit claims from applicants using the Social Security numbers of dead people. In the 2008 credit program, the audit identified 1,326 individuals who claimed a total of $10.1 million when the home purchase date occurred after the purported claimant’s date of death.

In 951claims the individual whose Social Security number was used had been dead for at least half a year. The IRS denied 528 of the 1,326 total claims — worth about $4 million — but 798 claimants using dead persons’ Social Security identifications apparently received credits. The IRS has agreed to audit those 798 tax returns, according to the inspector general’s report.

E-mail Ken Harney at kenharney@earthlink.net.

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Felix Nguyen, 15856 Fairview Farm Blvd., residence, erect, $975,000.

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Get it while its hot!! let us help you with your mobile home moving costs. Yukon Schools call for details 821-0297/495-1463 We'll PAY to have YOUR Home moved to any one of Our parks.

Conditions apply Call 326-5728 for Details

Sharp Spacious 2-story 4bd, great area, basement, new carpet, fresh paint ch/a Seller will pay closing $99,750. Fidelity RE 692-1661, 417-1963 Seller Financing, Lease Purchase Homes 2, 3, 4bds all areas, 973-4322 or buyahouseinoklahoma.com OWNER FINANCING $2000 down No Credit Ck 2133 Cashion 2/1 $58,000 ¡¡ 410-8840 ¡¡ Rem 3/2.5 2200' Duplex, Quail Creek -ALL New! jacuzzi, wetbar . golf $187K broker 822-9070 2bd 1ba. Lrg fenced yard w/storage bldg 900sf m/l. $47,000 613-8711 Bluestem Lake under $300k!

BY OWNER 3BR Contemp 2300sf $259K 603-7665

REDUCED TO SELL! Cash Flow Rental Prop.

Handyman Specials Owner financing avail.

5021 Fairmont $59,500 Price Negotiable Kruger Investment Jim 235-9332/812-1657

For Sale By Owner, 320 acres Lincoln County, OK 405-258-3634/918-740-3197

Extra cute 2bd 1.5ba, ch/a, 2-car gar, only $51,500 Fidelity 692-1661

2K Ac. NW of Yukon w/ well & septic, mobiles ok.

Ted 405-514-3029/749-1341 Seller Financing, Lease Purchase Homes 2, 3, 4bds all areas, 973-4322 or buyahouseinoklahoma.com

NEW HOME in great neighborhood on lrg city lot. 3/2/2 kit w/island approx 1452' cov patio, fence & sod. $139,900.

Richard 313-1726 Cleaton & Assoc 373-2494

Rooms & More of OKC LLC, 1117 NW 105, residence, add-on, $40,450.

7-Eleven, 1020 N Mustang Road, canopy-carport, erect, $38,000.

Carol S. Rogers, 9717 NW 10, manufactured home, move-on-mobile home park, $36,500.

Nam Tran, 15220 N Western Ave., supplement, supplement, $35,000.

Robert M. Carter, 6100 Lytle Drive, accessory, add-on, $35,000.

Lue Nelson, 817 Clipper, manufactured home, move-on-mobile home park, $35,000.

Althea R. Roberts, 8528 S Drexel Ave., residence, add-on, $30,000.

Faith That Pleases God Church, 5209 S Pennsylvania Ave., church, remodel, $30,000.

Callahan Steel Buildings (Curt), 9024 Wheatland Drive, storage, erect, $25,000.

Janet Latham, 2732 Somerset Place, accessory, add-on, $25,000.

Ol LC, 4214 N Classen Blvd., office, remodel, $25,000.

Steven Jech, 11601 N Air Depot Blvd., residence, remodel, $25,000.

Brenda K. Morgan, 2200 NE 88, residence, add-on, $20,000.

Brandi Walker, 5004 S Eastern Ave., manufactured home, move-onmobile home park, $18,000.

Cris Foote, 5004 S East-

Industrial Property For Rent 40 acres in rural south central Oklahoma, wooded & pasture land, spring fed pond, deep well, $200,000, 580-618-1969.

100 year old home with antiques & 3 bd/1 ba rental for sale. $15K & $9K. 580-363-3524 4 bed, 2 bath, 100 acres, carports, barns, ponds, $259K. 918-969-2613

CLEVELAND COUNTY REAL ESTATE AUCTION See Class 355. Info (405) 642-3496 » 226-2015

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Foreclosure/Behind Paymt Overleveraged/Repairs Call/Web 800-Sell-Now.com

Warehouse/Office I-40 & Meridian, 2200-4819sf, 946-2516

Office Space For Rent »»»»»»»»»»»» 1-6 room office suites Starting $6.50/sq ft, Also Furn office spaces »» 6 4 0 - 8 2 0 6 »» 1, 2 & 3-Room Suites $150 & up ¡ 50th & N. Santa Fe area 235-8080 Small ofc, 300sf, Meridian & I-40 avail now! $175mo util incld. 405-600- 9990

Warehouse Space For Rent 1134 West Main 6000sf warehouse space avail downtown, overhead doors $2000mo $1000dp 409-7989

The Plaza 1740 NW 17th K Off Special 1bd, 1ba 750sf, wood floors, all elec, $425 mo, $200dp. No sec8 409-7989 Briargate 1718 N Indiana K Off Move in Special!

800sf 1bd 1ba, cha, all elec, wood floor, $450mo, $200 dep. No sec 8 409-7989 2810 Dorchester Dr Apt 5 spacious 2bd 1.5ba, large living area, ch/a, completely remodeled, $575 mo Fidelity RE 692-1661 **ALL BILLS PAID** $149 1ST Mo. on 1 beds 946-0588 2 Beds, too DREXEL ON THE PARK Beautiful 2bd TH lrg prvt patio. Reasonable rent.

Call for Special Willow Walk, 789-2692 Mesta Park 804 NW 21 2bd 1ba 1000sf wood flrs, ch/a Free Laundry $600mo $400dp 409-7989 no sec8 2528 NW 12th 1bd 1ba Garage Apt K off Special Wood flrs, 675sf $325mo $175dp 409-7989 no sec8

Seller Financing, Lease Purchase Homes 2, 3, 4bds all areas, 973-4322 or buyahouseinoklahoma.com

Furnished/Unfurnished Bills Paid » Wkly/Monthly Wes Chase Apts, Elk Horn Apts, Hillcrest 943-1818

I BUY HOUSES Any condition. No cost to U 495-5100

3 bed, 1.5 bath, newly remodeled, large workshop, 5942 NW 28, $97,500 949-1811

3.5A Nice 4bd, 3ba, 2 car Wash. Sch. 417-2176 www.homesofokcinc.com

Price Reduced $5000 Extra sharp 2bd 1.5ba 2-car, ch/a, new roof & siding, only $54,900 Fidelity 692-1661

5215 HART DR NE 5Ac 5Bd, 3K Ba, 2 Liv, 1 Din, 3 Car, New Roof & Gutters. Lots of Updates Pipe & Cable Fence $375K Leon 373-4820 Overland Ex Realty, Inc

Want FREE lot rent?

Call for more info.

Conditions apply 405-326-5728

1340 SE 41 Everything New! Com. to buyer's agent.ch&a.3/1 $59,500. 245-4008

6A Mustang 29K cash Great buy • 417-2176 www.homesofokcinc.com

GREAT COUNTRY HOME 2504 Mustang Rd NE 4Bd, 3K Ba, Pool & Pool Rm 30x50 bldg w/ K Ba + H/A, 7.5 AC + Pond + 2nd Outbldg $392K Leon 373-4820 Overland Exp Rlty

residence, erect, $165,000.

G.H. & Associates Inc., 6401 Outabounds Court, residence, fire restoration, $160,000.

Tommy Huelskamp LLC, 3248 Orchard Ave., residence, erect, $155,000.

Crown Construction LLC, 15209 Burning Spring Road, residence, add-on, $150,000.

Tommy Huelskamp LLC, 3244 Orchard Ave., residence, erect, $150,000.

Tommy Huelskamp LLC, 3252 Orchard Ave., residence, erect, $150,000.

Loren L. Capron, 2507 N Hudson Ave., residence, remodel, $100,000.

Ideal Homes of Norman LP, 13300 SW 3, residence, erect, $99,000.

Mercy Health Center, 1919 E Memorial Road, parking, install, $80,000.

Rausch Coleman Homes LLC, 8024 Sunny Pointe Lane, residence, erect, $80,000.

Ron Walters Homes LLC, 11013 Blue Stem Drive, residence, remodel, $80,000.

Home Creations, 2109 NW 199, residence, erect, $77,000.

CLS Group, 4401 S Western Ave., tower-antenna, install, $71,750.

Wynn Construction, 3220 S High Ave., office, remodel, $70,000.

CTR Construction Services LLC, 14848 Bristol Park Blvd., storage, addon, $50,000.

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417-2176

NW 50th and Portland, Remodel, from $525/mo. »» 405-692-5584 »» » MOVE IN SPECIAL » LARGE 1, 2 & 3 BEDS Rockwell Arms, 787-1423

Heard of a SHORT SALE? SELL YOUR HOUSE TODAY! Foreclosure/behind Pymts 340-9879/HouseKings.com

800 N. Meridian: 1bd, all bills paid & weekly rates available.

946-9506

I BUY & SELL HOUSES 27 YRS EXP 650-7667 HOMESOFOKCINC.COM MOVE IN NOW! Pd. water/garbage Quiet.

Try Plaza East•341-4813 Lakefront Home Lake Eufaula 2004 3 bed., 2 ba, 2 car, great room, decks in w/sandy beach & dock. $325,000 Karen @ ERA 918-617-3901

1 & 2 BEDROOMS, QUIET! Covered Parking Great Schools! 732-1122

$99 Move-In Special 1bd 1ba $295-350, stove, fridge, very clean 625-5200 $199 MOVE IN SPECIAL 2BED Townhomes $599 Windsor Village 943-9665 MAYFAIR GARDENS Historic Area! Secure, wash /dry hardwd flrs 947-5665

Price Reduced! New 3bd/2ba Mobile Homes already on land located in Shawnee, Prague, Cromwell & Harrah Owner Financing Woodlake Properties 405-273-5777 www.property4sale.com Special Program Own Land/ Family Land use land to get new home. Quick & E-Z Program. We do it all for you. 1000 furniture package with purchase 888-878-2971 405-204-4163 HOMES YOU CAN AFFORD WOW- 3bed. Shingle Roof Vinyl siding $19900 or $315mo. wac 405-787-5004 FREE Down Payment Money For Cherokee & Caddo members Call to find your home today 405-470-1330 1999 16x80 3 bed, 2 bath remodeled, exc cond, all appliances included.

To be moved. $25,000, 405-395-0196 Repo or New Land/Home Packages set up on 1 to 5 acres. Quick & E-Z. Call for Details.

888-878-2971 405-635-4338 DW on Acreage, 4 Bed/ 2Bath, 2350 sq ft, 2 car garage ¡ 405-412-6236 4/2 Bath set up w/2.5 Acres. Call for Details 888-878-2971 405-413-7257 Land & Home We do it all 5.75% for a limited time THCOK.COM 405-787-4035 3/2 Bath set up in quiet park. Ready to move in.

405-631-7600 405-602-4526 Repo 10 acres 2200 sf, E of City. 301-2454/517-5000 3bd 2ba DW $20K Del. 301-2454/517-5000 2200 sf 4x2, Newcastle 301-2454/517-5000

Commercial Property For Sale National tenant prime location in McAlester, priced to yeild 8K % 7100' Larry 405-202-0799

Established Business For Sale ESTABLISHED RESTAURANT SEALED BID AUCTION SAT SEPT 25 • 10AM 2500sf. SE Of Norman Owner Retiring. By appt.

Percy Moreu Land & Auction 405-226-2015 Owner of well established western Oklahoma contract manufacturer wishes to retire. $4.5 million annual revenue, $700K profit. » 918-748-7995 » BAKERY 4yrs old SW OKC/Moore Fantastic Oppty. $60K 703-3626

Investment Property For Sale CLEVELAND COUNTY REAL ESTATE AUCTION SAT, OCT 2, 2010 10A.M. Special Cleveland County Acreages Near Noble, Norman, & Lake Thunderbird Also selling 2 story Historical Home in Norman & Santa Fe Style Home in Norman For brochure or additional information, call 405-642-3496 or Percy Moreu – Real Estate Broker/Owner 405-226-2015 6A Mustang 29K. 2.5A 2000' home 39K, Lot on N Western 9.5K. Log house 29K • 417-2176 www.homesofokcinc.com

Business Property For Rent 12,000' Whse 1009 SW 5th, Western & New I-40 $2000mo Hal, 722-6169

Condominiums, Townhouses For Rent 441 3245 NW 50th #244 2 bed 2 bath $550 mo TMS Prop 348-0720 N.W. Quiet, gated 2/2/2 lease $950mo, 842-5632 Condo in downtown OKC 2 bd, 2 ba, studio, $1200 month, 601-6291.

Walford Apts 518 NW 12 katpropertiesllc.com » Corner Studio Apt, 600sf 1bd 1ba all electric $550mo $300dp » Mid Studio Apt, 500sf 1bd 1ba all electric $475mo $250dp » Efficiency 450sf 1bd 1bath $375mo $200dp 409-7989 LIMITED TIME SPECIAL $149 1st mo 525-1177 Near OU Med Center.

MOMENTUM PROP MGMT

Gated, roomy efficiency w/full kitchen, exc cond.

Just $305/mo! Ask about move in special.

Call Katrina 204-7826

Taking applications for 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. Please call 787-9403. Rockwell Villa Apartments does not discriminate on the basis of handicap status in the admission or access to or treatment or employment in its federally assisted programs and activities. Equal housing opportunity.

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$201 Total Move-In Cost Energy Eff., $301 move in/1 bd, $401 move in/2 bd. $1 First Week Rent Weekly Avail: Effic $115 1bd $125, 2bd $165 616 SW 59th, between Western&Walker634-4798 Drug free environment Not all bills paid $99 SPECIAL Lg 1bdr, stove, refrig., clean, walk to shops. $325 mo. 632-9849

Quiet Country Living 1/2 duplex 3bd 1ba elec incl.

Jones schl dist. NO Pets $595 + dep 405-633-3598

OLDETOWNE 2 bed 1 car attached 9129 Pepperdine 769-7177

3615 NW 51st Amazing Duplex close to Baptist/ Deaconess, 1300sf 2bd 2bath 2car gar fireplace $900mo $900dp Must see!

No pets 409-7989 no sec 8 New Luxury Duplex 13516 Brandon Place 3/2/2, fp, Deer Creek Schls, near Mercy. Model open 10-4 842-7300 ALL BILLS PAID small 1 bed, appls, $375 1608K NW 47, 943-4303 3/2.5/2, 9912 Mashburn Blvd. $875, no sec. 8, 412-8540, jjcrent.com 3 bd, 2 ba, garage, ch&a, new paint/carpet, 1 year lease $890, 650-8877.

Large 2bd 2ba 2car gar golf course view. $850/ mo. 1yr lease. 722-2924 3408 Cameron Ct 2/2/1 All appls No pets $650 J Watson Rlty, 755-2510

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Condominiums, Townhouses For Rent 441

7301 NW 23rd

Washer/Dryer hookups » Free Basic Cable » Large 1 & 2 beds Housing welcome PC Schools Foxcroft Apts 6810 NW 16th 787-6655 Pick Your Own Special + No App Fee! Some restrictions apply La Villa Apartments 848-6000 or 728-3432

1 bed, deck, appls, wtr/ garb pd, no pets no sec.

8, $350+ dep 314-9511

8012 NW 7th Pl Unit 324 extra sharp 1bd, 1.5ba, 1-car garage w/opener, new wood floor in living room, ch/a, $500 Fidelity RE 692-1661 2720 SW 74th unit 18, extra sharp 2bd townhouse, ch/a, built in appliances, washer/dryer hookups, patio area, only $550 Fidelity RE 692-1661 Parkview Apartments Now available 2 bed town homes w/ patios.

Call Jamie 737-0211

1002 Bell Dr. immac. brk 2/1/1, no pets/ smoking $650+dep. 787-8099.

4 bd, 1.5 ba, sec 8 ok, $750 + $50 dep. 1517 McGregor Dr. 209-4125 9100 Jennifer Pl 3/1/1$525 3605WoodsideDr3/1/1 $475 681-7272 2 bed, 1 bath, 1c garage, heat & air, no pets, remodeled, 732-7412

1101 Hazelwood 3bd $550 FLESHMANS INC 235-5473 or 314-3551 817 Hunters Run, MWC 1804sf 3bd/2ba/2car $1100/mo 371-3492

Brick 3/2/2, kitchen appls, clean, fenced, $825 + dep, 454-2314, 664-3751

3120 Longridge 4bd $750 3925 SE 14 Pl 3/2/2 $695 3117 Overland 3/2/2 $695 2000 Ina Mae 4 Bed $595 4032 Thomas 3 Bed $495 4324 SE 38 3 Bed $450 Others Free List 605-5477 or 2545 SW 59 Nice 3 bd, 1 ba, 1c, ch/a, fncd, 3920 SE 22, sec. 8, $650+$550 dep 621-9318 3 bed, 1-2 bath, ch&a, 2car gar, $675/mo., $400/dep. 405-401-5538

HOMES FOR LEASE www.executivehome rentalsokc.com 3-4BRs $1000-$3000 Welcome Home 877-884-7434 Lovely 2700sf 2 story 4bed on 2.5Ac w/office, 2 din, 2liv pool, workshop Fncd. Deercreek schls. $2100 + dept 306-5651

Alloy Building Co., 929 SW 57, canopy-carport, add-on, $2,600.

Alloy Building Co., 1300 NW 107, canopy-carport, add-on, $2,600.

Sooner Carports, 740 NW 89, canopy-carport, add-on, $2,600.

Beign Blakley, 15315 Bay Ridge Drive, storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $2,400.

Freddie Byford, 20124 SE 134, storm shelter, installstorm shelter, $2,400.

Mary Vo, 10452 Dover Drive, storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $2,000.

Thomas S. Beatty, 444 SE 45, canopy-carport, add-on, $1,500.

Alifonso Bettran, 2900 SE 56, residence, add-on, $1,500.

Herlinda Arreola, 3617 SW 37, canopy-carport, add-on, $1,000.

Sheila Woessner, 8910 Inman Drive, manufactured home, move-onmobile home park, $1,000.

Demolitions L&S Demolition, 113 NE 36, auto.

K&M Dirt Services LLC, 16029 S Midwest Blvd., house.

L&S Demolition, 2427 NW 11, garage.

Midwest Wrecking, 10733 NE 55, garage.

Midwest Wrecking, 1216 Carverdale Drive, garage.

1744 Carlisle 2/1/1 $725 2601 NW 35 3/1/1 $675 12721BrandonPl3/2/2 $995 2064 NW 48 2/2 $1450 707 NE 19 3/2/2 $1600 Express Realty 844-6101 www.expressrealtyok.com CasitaBlanca Contemporary Condo 2618 NW 50 2bd 2ba 2car $1250mo $1000 dep 1300 sf Stainless Appls, California Closets much more 409-7989 2/3bed, liv, kit, CHA, attch gar, w/d hkup, storage bldg, new carpet, no pets, 2917 Elmwood, $675 mo $675 dep, avail 10/01, 340-8416.

2620 NW 12th 3bd $550 2800 NW 12th 3bd $400 429 NW 86 3bd sec8$550 9921 McKinley 3bd $600 FLESHMANS INC 235-5473 or 314-3551 Surrey Hills-#1 fairway 3/2/2, fireplace w/garden room, $1500 month 821-8468 412 NW 116th K off move in special. 3bd 2ba 2car 1300sf $850/mo $800dp 409-7989 no sec8 1540 NW 48th 3 bd 1 ba, ch&a, w/d hkup, $675mo $400/dep.850-9795 SUMMERFIELD 3 bd, 2 ba, 2 car, fp, new carpet, appls, $1300, 755-8025.

LEASE PURCHASE Totally redone 4bd/2ba/ 2car $1150mo 308-9291

Great location! HS-MidElem-shops 3bed, 2ba, 2 Car $1100.

405-596-8099-227-5378 300 S Silver Leaf Dr 3bd brk, 2b, ch&a, 2car opnr. fp, fenced, $850 mo. + dep. 364-0356 Remodeled, 3 bed, new CH/A $900/mo or sell 1705 Rockhollow Call 203-7007 3 bed, 1 bath, no garage, ch&a, fenced bkyd $575 mo, $500 dep. 326-6081 3bd 2ba 1037 NW 15th $900; 4bd 3ba 209 Bellaire $1000. 405-205-3328 1808 SunriseDr 3/1.5/2$800 Home&RanchRlty 794-7777

HOMES FOR LEASE www.executivehome rentalsokc.com 3-4BRs $1000-$3000 Welcome Home 877-884-7434 204ShannonWy3/2/2 $1295 516ChrokeeGate4/2/2 $925 Express Realty 844-6101 www.expressrealtyok.com

Nice Efficiency$345 Gas pd 1608 NW 16th 232-9101

Houses for rent

Spring Special

787-1620

Duplexes, 3 bed 2 bath, 2 car, some new, some gated, call Rick, 405-830-3789

523 SW 26th Garage Apt 1bed 1ba 600sf Upstairs $325mo $175dp 409-7989

Yukon Rent Specials 1 bd From $359 2 bd From $459 3 bd From $559 For info & specials 354-5855

LARGE TOWNHOMES & APARTMENTS • Washer, Dryers, pools • PC Schools, fireplaces

Clean 2 bed 2 bath 1 car, 1420 A SW 35 St. $600 mo, $300 dep. 550-8059

Furnished/Unfurnished Bills Paid » Wkly/Monthly Wes Chase Apts, Elk Horn Apts, Hillcrest 943-1818

Furn 1BD most bills Paid + EMSA, no sec 8 and no pets, 524-2730

501 Brighton, 3/2/2, hrdwd flrs. $925 + dep.

285-0305 / 823-6550

2 bed, appls, CH&A, No Sec. 8, 2101 Turner Dr. $500/mo ¡ 830-4695

Furnished/Unfurnished Bills Paid » Wkly/Monthly Wes Chase Apts, Elk Horn Apts, Hillcrest 943-1818

$99 Move In Special!!!

Lg 1 and 2 Bdr, $325 to $395 mo. 632-9849

2616AshebriarLn4/3/2 $1900 722 Littler 3/1 $750 1825 NW 146 2/1/1 $900 Express Realty 844-6101 www.expressrealtyok.com

V-Nice, 1 mi E of Tinker, 3/1, ch&a, util rm, $525 + $300, no pets, 732-4351.

Spacious2BdApts! $525 Casady 751-8088

Commercial RE

ern Ave., manufactured home, move-on-mobile home park, $17,000.

L.G. Construction Co. Inc., 2329 NW 15, accessory, erect, $15,859.

Phyllis Mayes, 1413 NW 103, residence, add-on, $14,000.

Cris Foote, 4800 Foster Road, manufactured home, move-on-mobile home park, $12,000.

TNH Holding, 16401 N Rockwell Ave., retail sales, remodel, $10,000.

Misoel Marquel, 12000 NE 82, residence, add-on, $10,000.

7-Eleven, 1020 N Mustang Road, retail sales, remodel, $9,000.

Roy Carrisal, 14000 Edmond Lake Drive, canopycarport, add-on, $8,500.

TNH Holding, 16401 N Rockwell Ave., retail sales, remodel, $6,000.

7-Eleven, 1016 N Mustang Road, retail sales, remodel, $5,000.

Shirley Johnston, 413 SW 99, storm shelter, installstorm shelter, $4,595.

Home Tech, 804 NW 43, residence, remodel, $4,500.

Efren Fraire, 2831 SW 35, residence, add-on, $3,500.

Molses Robles, 2229 SW 35, residence, add-on, $3,000.

Mary Vo, 10448 Fairfax Lane, storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $3,000.

D.R. Horton, 3308 NW 176, storm shelter, installstorm shelter, $2,700.

Block 42 in downtown OKC 2/2/2 $2200 month CALL 405-231-2119 Welcome Home Sales & Management Services

40 acre ranch with 4 stall horse barn & riding arena 4/3/3, 3650 sq/ft $4000 a month. CALL 405-231-2119 Welcome Home Sales & Management Services 817 NE 81 5 Bed $795 509 N Kelham 4 Bed $695 3328 NE 14 3 Bed $495 1718 E Madison 2bd $450 Others Free List 605-5477 or 2545 SW 59 5609 NE Grand Blvd. 3bd 1.5 bath, double car garage $750/mo 408-5836

12409 Covey Crk 3/2/2 $995 12713 Meadows 3/2/2 $795 2317 Hammond 3/1/1 $650 336 NW 88 3/2/2 $650 220 NW 89 3/1.5/1 $595 3728 NW 29 2 Bed $395 Others Free List 605-5477 or 2545 SW 59 1928 NW 30th 3bd 1ba, basement $495 3041 NW 29th 3bd 1ba, ch/a $525 1326 NW 100th 2 or 3bd, 1bath $525 681-7272

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OCU-SHEP-HIST 3 bd, 2 ba, hdwd flrs, $800; 1 bd gar apt $325; 524-0222 4144 NW 22nd. Nice 2 bed, 1 bath, 1 car, CH&A, $600 month » 755-1316 For 3bd or 4bd homes & apartments, go to katpropertiesllc.com Section 8 OK, 2 bed, ch&a, 4100 NW 16th.

942-3552 3317 N Pioneer 2bd, fenced, nice area $495 Fidelity 692-1661

Remodeled & upgraded 2 bd, 1 ba, living room, large dining area & kitchenette, new CH/A. $550 mo + $550 dep. 605-9338 Moore Schls 1232 SW 93 Fenced corner lot. 3bd 2ba 2 car garage. fp, $995+dep 755-6036 2505 S Douglas 3bd 2ba ch/a water & garbage paid $550 mo Fidelity 692-1661 Rent Houses for Military Personnel & Section 8 SW OKC, Moore & Del City. Call 519-5511 3009 SW 64 3bd sec8 $650 1432 SW 11th 2bd $375 FLESHMANS INC 235-5473 or 314-3551 Nice 3 bed+den, 1K bath, 1c, ch&a, fncd yd, no pets, 680-9299 3925 SW 25th St. 3 bd, 1 ba, CH&A, $500/mo + $400 dep. 631-8220 Section 8 Only, 2 bed, 1 bath, appls, fncd, 3636 SW 36 $500.

685-8240 2820 SW 61st 3 bed, 1K bath $695/mo 408-5836 S. Stults 2/1/1 Very nice new carpet, ch&a. No pets. $550+dep 650-9684 1bed remodeled, range & frig, no pets. Sec 8 ok.

787-6677 »» 641-6203

Cedar Creek addition K off first months rent 3/2/2 $1095 a month Gated community.

CALL 405-231-2119 Welcome Home Sales & Management Services HOMES FOR LEASE www.executivehome rentalsokc.com 3-4BRs $1000-$3000 Welcome Home 877-884-7434

2 bed, 1 bath, burglar alarm, ch&a, 3016 NW 33rd. $650, 722-1045 Darling 3b, 2b, 2c fp 4317 Holiday Pl, (63rd/Meridian), $1000, 830-3399.

Lovely 4bd 2ba brick home Near school $965 603-7665

HOMES FOR LEASE www.executivehome rentalsokc.com 3-4BRs $1000-$3000 Welcome Home 877-884-7434

HOMES FOR LEASE www.executivehome rentalsokc.com 3-4BRs $1000-$3000 Welcome Home 877-884-7434

WHY RENT WHEN YOU CAN OWN? Easy financing with no credit needed. Yukon schls

706 SE 69th 3 Bed $595 701 SE 61 3 Bed $595 1521 SE 45 4Bed $595 1122 SE 21 2 Bed $450 Others Free List 605-5477 or 2545 SW 59

$ FREE RENT 1ST MO $ 2BR $395+, 3BR $495+, MWC NO PETS 427-0627

6100 S. Cox, completely remodeled 3bd, new roof, new siding, new carpet, fresh paint, only $475 Fidelity RE 692-1661 1 month Free 3/2/2 $750 Move in now!

Sec sys 413-2938 3BR/2BA/CHA, $600/mo + $400 dep. 4204 SE 46th 381-4841 or 990-4869 29 SE 37th 3bd 1.5ba $495 681-7272

7108 S Danner4/2.5/2 $995 2528 Sw 63 Pl 4/2/2 $795 1104 SW 77 Pl 3/2/1 $695 2524 SW 52 3/1/1 $695 2712 SW 53 3 Bed $650 5321 Blackwelder3/1/1$650 2805 SW 33 2/1/1 $450 3744 SW 41 2 Bed $395 Others Free List 605-5477 or 2545 SW 59 2236 SW 59th Pl 3bd 1ba 2car, 2 living ch/a $875 2509 Texoma Dr 3/1/1 ch/a $650 2401 SW 43rd #7 1bd apt, total elect, water paid $325 681-7272 New Rivendell Exec Home 408-4168 Luxury indoor pool & spa Fully equip'd media & wrkout rooms $5400/mo Openhouseok.com

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Add decorative elements to outdoor deck Everyone loves having an outdoor deck to relax on during the summer months. But if your deck is just a little bit on the boring side, there’s a wide variety of deck helpers available for turning “hohum” into “wow!”

Deck balusters Instead of standard wooden pickets on your deck railing, how about something really eyecatching? There are a variety of extruded aluminum balusters to select from that combine beautifully with wood to create a sturdy deck railing that’s also weather resistant. Aluminum balusters are available in lots of different baked-on enamel colors, such as black, white, green, bronze, silver and others.

Balusters don’t need to be straight up and down either. You can choose from ones that are twisted in classic Colonial shapes, or ones that are arced out in smooth curves or angular bends to suit your particular tastes and style. All of them are pre-shaped and simple to install.

Deck rail panels How about something even more dramatic to set off your deck rail? There are laser-cut steel panels available with the silhouettes of trees, wildlife and other outdoor scenes.

The panels fit into grooves in wooden supports to make up a sturdy deck railing that will really become an unusual feature in your yard. You can ring the entire deck with them, or use just one or two panels as a focal point.

Solar post lights Here’s a quick and easy deck upgrade that looks great and is also a nice safety feature. Solar post lights attach to the top of any standard 4-by-4inch posts. A small solar panel on top of the light uses sunlight during the day to recharge batteries inside the fixture, which powers LED lights at night. Solar post lights are available in several different styles and colors,

Paul Bianchina HANDY @ HOME and are easy to install with no electrical wiring required.

Rail-top planters You can dress up the look of your deck without utilizing any valuable deck space by incorporating some rail-top planters.

These attractive planters are made from vinyl, cedar or other materials, and are designed with a groove in the bottom that fits over standard 2-by-4inch or 2-by-6-inch lumber. Available in both round pot and rectangular box designs, the planters fit over the top cap of the deck’s railing. They’re easy to install wherever you want to add the beauty and color of fresh flowers on your deck, or even to create a quick herb garden.

Patio misters If you have a deck that’s a little too hot to handle some afternoons, consider the addition of some patio misters. A patio mister is simply a series of micro-nozzles installed in a length of hose. The hose is attached to the edge of your deck railing, the underside of a patio cover or pergola, or any other convenient location, then attached to an outdoor hose bib. The nozzles deliver a continuous, fine mist of water, which in turn will cool

down the ambient temperatures and make your deck and your outdoor environment much more enjoyable.

Patio misters are available in different lengths and nozzle configurations, and there are also accessories such as booster pumps, splitters and even in-line filters to help you customize your installation.

Rope lights For some fun and some added safety, consider adding some rope lights to your deck. Rope lights are tiny bulbs encased in clear or colored flexible plastic tubing, and they can be installed outdoors in a wide variety of locations. They add a festive atmosphere to any deck or patio cover, and provide additional subtle, nonglare lighting for steps, railings and other areas. Look for lighting that’s UL-approved for exterior use.

Plan sets Feeling ambitious? If you’d like to tackle an outdoor project that will improve your yard and give you a tremendous feeling of accomplishment, but you’re at a loss as to where to begin, consider buying a set of plans. There are plans available for a wide variety of projects, from simple barbecue carts and picnic tables to Adirondack chairs and deck gliders. You’ll find plans for interesting deck railings, pergolas and deck covers, and even for the deck itself. The typical plan set comes with drawings, material lists

and assembly instructions, and some are even available with DVDs. You can find these and other accessories for your deck at your local home center, hardware store

and lumberyard, as well as at some larger department stores and warehouse stores. And as always, a search of the Internet will yield a wealth of products and

ideas.

Remodeling and repair questions?

E-mail Paul Bianchina at paulbianchina@ inman.com. All product reviews are based on the author’s actual testing of free review samples provided by the manufacturers.

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