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How to deal with weed killer concerns An unpleasant side-effect to all the great rains we’ve had recently is the explosion in our weed growth. This has been especially true in vegetable gardens and ornamental beds where the exposed soil has been too wet to cultivate. The calls and damaged plant samples coming into the Extension office right now serve as a somber reminder for the need to take care with weed control products, especially those designed to control broad leaf weeds. The vast majority
Home Grown KEITH REED of broadleaf weed control products contain 2,4-D (Dimethylamine salt of 2,4-D-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) or a closely related chemical. This active ingredient is found in hundreds of different products and can come in both liquid or granular forms. When used properly in accordance with
the label instructions, this product does a great job at controlling most broadleaf weeds. The bad news is it is equally as effective at killing many of our desirable plants with tomatoes, potatoes, and grapes being some of the most sensitive. “No problem”, you may say, “I’ll just
The do’s and don’ts of selling a home By Cathy Hobbs
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When it comes time to prepare a home for sale, there are a number of quick and affordable fixes that can help seal the deal, while some so-called improvements may sink a sale. When it’s time to put your home on the market, there are some definite do’s and don’ts. DO: Give your home a fresh coat of paint. Freshly painted walls are one of the top selling features
for potential buyers. Make minor repairs. Many homeowners see even minor repairs as worry and work. Kennel pets during showings. Many potential buyers will not purchase a home occupied by a pet. Consider replacing a roof. Many potential buyers view this as a big ticket item. The fact that your home has a new roof will be a selling feature. Repaint your home’s exterior. Typically every five to 10 years is a great time
to repaint a home. DON’T: Install expensive finishes or fixtures for selling purposes. Many times potential buyers will want to add their own personal touch as far as improvements. Forget the power of home staging. Home staging is one of the most powerful selling tools in which a property is staged or styled in order to be presented in its best possible light. Forget to have your property professionally cleaned. This will make a huge visual impact.
be careful not to spray these plants”. If only it were that easy. This class of chemical moves very easily with the wind, traveling much farther than you might imagine. To make matters a bit worse, the liquid form of the product does not even have to make the trip with the wind. When conditions are right (higher temperatures and young, actively growing plants are a big part of this), even the vapor from
the product can be enough to cause a problem. Scientists use the term epinasty to describe the growth of the affected plant. Damage is characterized by stretching, twisting, and general malformation of the leaves and stems. Sometimes, the plants can recover and outgrow this, but oftentimes they do not. It can help to prune off the damaged portions since once the plant part is deformed, it
is never going to regain its full function. The take home message is one you’ve heard often if you are a regular reader. Part of the role of the product label is to warn you of issues like this, but ultimately, it is up to individual users of these products to use them correctly. Please read and follow the instructions. If you have questions after that, give us a call in the Extension office and we’ll try to help.
If you do call, have the product label (or at least the brand name and active ingredient) close by. For more information on this or any other horticultural topic, you can contact Keith Reed, the Horticulturist in the Payne County Extension office. Keith can be reached via email at keith.reed@ okstate.edu, phone at 405-747-8320, or in person at the Payne County Extension office, located at 315 W. 6th in Stillwater.
Passive income is the financial key Retire with Rentals AUSTIN FRUECHTING your funds. Oh, and as stated above, hope you don’t lose a huge chunk in a bad market. The decades required and uncertainty of this approach is why I looked for alternatives. I found the key to achieving the good life and financial freedom sooner rather than later is to find ways to generate passive income. Some have invested in businesses. Some have invented products, then licensed them for a monthly royalty. But those require special talents or groundbreaking business ideas that I did not have. So, for me, real estate was the clear path. It only took me seven years to create enough passive income through rental properties to retire. Far less than traditional
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ed for your desired lifestyle. Calculate how much you need to live your ideal life and you’ll know your target. With your goal in mind, start working toward it by finding ways to generate steady and consistent cash flows. Rental properties
provide the easiest and fastest way to generate lifelong passive income. No special talents required. All it takes is simply the ability to accurately assess profits and losses each month. Investing for annual passive cash flow is the clear path to living
the good life and living financially free. Real estate achieves that in the shortest amount of time. Austin Fruechting retired in seven years by investing in rental properties. For questions, comments, and to learn more, visit www. goodlifeinten.com
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To state the obvious, you need income! Most people work their 9-to-5 jobs for decades, putting a little money away each year in hopes to eventually save up enough in their investment accounts to be able to retire. That’s the traditional method – and it can be an effective method. Getting there just takes longer and can be risky. (Just ask anyone who was hoping to retire in 2008 how the market crash affected their plans.) Conventional wisdom suggests saving up a million dollars, or two, or more depending on the lifestyle you want to live. Put millions in a retirement account and then live off the annual interest it makes. Even with compounding interest, saving that much is an incredibly daunting task. If you plan to save a little less and live off the principle balance, you better be extremely accurate in your expense calculations and hope you don’t outlive
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Zillow under fire for ‘Zestimate’system WASHINGTON – It was bound to happen: A home owner has filed suit against online realty giant Zillow, claiming the company’s controversial “Zestimate” tool repeatedly undervalued her home, creating a “tremendous road block” to its sale. The suit, which may be the first of its kind, was filed in Cook County Circuit Court by a Glenview, Illinois, real estate lawyer, Barbara Andersen. The suit alleges that despite Zillow’s denial that Zestimates constitute “appraisals,” the fact that they offer market value estimates and “are promoted as a tool for potential buyers to use in assessing market value of a given property,” meets the definition of an appraisal under state law. Not only should Zillow be licensed to perform appraisals before offering such estimates, the suit argues, but it should obtain “the consent of the homeowner” before posting them online for everyone to see. In an interview, Andersen told me she is considering bringing the issue to the Illinois state attorney general because it affects all owners in the state. She has also been approached about turning the matter into a class action,
The Nation’s Housing Column KENNETH R. HARNEY which could touch millions of owners across the country. In the suit, Andersen said that she has been trying to sell her townhouse, which overlooks a golf course and is in a prime location, for $626,000 – roughly what she paid for it in 2009. Homes directly across the street, but with greater square footage, sell for $100,000 more, according to her court filing. But Zillow’s automated valuation system has apparently used sales of newly constructed houses from a different and less costly part of town as comparables in valuing her townhouse, she says. The most recent Zestimate is for $562,000. Andersen is seeking an injunction against Zillow and wants the company to either remove her Zestimate or amend it. For the time being she is not seeking monetary damages, she told me. Emily Heffter, a spokeswoman for Zillow, dismissed Andersen’s litigation as “without merit.” A publicly traded real estate
marketing company based in Seattle, Zillow has been offering Zestimates since 2006. Currently it provides them for upward of 110 million houses – whether for sale or not. Type in almost any home’s street address and you’ll likely get a property description and a Zestimate. The value estimates are based on public records and other data using “a proprietary formula,”
according to Zillow. The Zestimate feature is the cornerstone of Zillow’s business model since it pulls in millions of home shoppers, allowing the company to sell advertising space to realty agents. Zillow makes big money with the help of its Zestimates: In the first quarter of this year, it reported $245.8 million in revenues – a 32 percent jump over the year before – including $175 million in payments from “premier” agents, who pay for advertising. But there’s a flip side to Zestimates. Home owners, realty agents and appraisers have been
critical for years about the valuation tool, citing estimates that too often are far off the mark – sometimes 20 percent or 30 percent too low or too high – and misleading to consumers. Zillow itself acknowledges errors. Nationwide, according to Heffter, it has a median error rate of 5 percent. Zestimates are within 5 percent of the sale price 53.9 percent of the time, within 10 percent 75.6 percent of the time and within 20 percent 89.7 percent of the time, Zillow claims. A Zestimate “is not an appraisal,” the company says on its website, but instead is “Zillow’s
estimated market value” using its proprietary formula. Another way of looking at the Zestimate error rate: Roughly one quarter of the time, the value estimate is off by 10 percent or more of the selling price, and wrong by 20 percent or more 10 percent of the time. Though the 5 percent median error rate sounds modest, when computed against median sales prices, the errors can translate into tens of thousands of dollars – hundreds of thousands in high cost areas. Also in some counties, error
rates zoom beyond the 5 percent median – 33.9 percent, for example, in Ogle County, Illinois, and 10 percent to 20 percent in a handful of counties in Ohio, Maryland, Florida, Oklahoma and Illinois. Some appraisers are cheering Andersen’s suit and welcomed the idea of state by state legal challenges. “They’ve been playing appraiser without being licensed for years and doing a bad job,” said Pat Turner, a Richmond, Virginia, appraiser. “It’s about time they got called on it.”
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Crowdfunding real estate? Dear Dave, I’d like to get involved in real estate investing, but I don’t have a lot of cash at present. What do you think of the idea of crowdfunding as a way to invest in real estate? – Adam Dear Adam, I’ve got a bunch of real estate, and I love it. But I wouldn’t go the crowdfunding route as a way to get started in real estate investing. I wouldn’t give someone money to buy real estate in a crowdfunding scenario, either. The late Beverly Sills had a great saying: “There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going.” Investing in real estate is wonderful when you do it right. Get out of debt first, pay cash, and find great
Dave Says DAVE RAMSEY bargains. When you get in a hurry, and do dumb stuff like go into debt or get mixed up with partnerships in the process, real estate’s a horrible investment. I admire your ambition, Adam. But I would advise you to follow my lead on this one. You’ll be glad you did! — Dave
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Q: Dear Ed: We’re making plans to finally have a sink installed in our laundry room and I have a faucet question. Should we look at kitchen or bathroom faucets to supply water to the sink? Thanks in
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and property taxes. If we use that $4,700 refund to make a one-time prepayment toward the balance of our loan, how much would we save in interest charges over the life of the mortgage and how much sooner would we pay it off? ANSWER: I have always been a big proponent of prepaying a mortgage, either through modest additional monthly payments - or larger, lump-sum payments at occasional intervals - directly to the loan’s outstanding balance. Your new interest rate of 4 percent, though, is fairly low, so it’s best to concentrate on reducing any credit card or other
higher-interest debt you may have before turning your attention to prepaying the mortgage. That said, you would pay a total of $111,398 in interest charges if you kept your new 30-year loan for its entire term. Adding a one-time payment of $4,700 toward the outstanding principal balance today would reduce your overall finance charges to $101,070 and allow you to pay the loan off in 28 years, four months. In other words, the lump-sum payment would allow you to own the home one year, eight months sooner and thus trim $10,328 off your long-term interest charges.
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A tax-reform “outline” that President Donald Trump recently presented to Congress suggests that write-offs for real estate property taxes might be eliminated. DEAR MR. MYERS: Is it true that President Trump wants to eliminate deductions for state and local taxes? That would be terrible for me and my neighbors because our annual real estate property taxes are already sky-high, and the deductions that we can take for them save us a lot of money when we file our federal returns! ANSWER: Yes, it’s true. In a tax-reform outline that Trump recently provided to Congress, the president suggested that he wants to keep the current deduction for mortgage-interest payments but would like to eliminate write-offs for most types of local and state taxes. That, presumably, would include those for property taxes. Whether Trump gets his wish is uncertain, at best. Lawmakers in high-tax states, including those from many Northeast states and California, are already complaining that dumping such de-
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