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Market strength expected to last through end of year Some experts predict that a rebounding job market and continued low mortgage rates will keep home sales and prices humming over the final three months of 2020. DEAR MR. MYERS: I’m surprised that real estate sales in our neighborhood have remained pretty strong, despite the COVID pandemic. When do you think that sales will slow down? ANSWER: Not in the foreseeable future, if most real estate economists are correct. Sure, the outbreak of COVID-19 earlier this year basically ruined the traditionally strong spring home-buying season. But that pent-up demand simply rolled over into the summer, in part because agents and their clients began adapting to the “new normal” by taking several precautionary health measures and by turning to the internet in even greater numbers to shop for a new home or to sell their current one. A prolonged drop in mortgage rates, which today has left them at historically low levels, perhaps has played an even more important role in creating what is now the strongest market since the 2006 boom days. Nationwide sales in August – the most recent figures available – rose
and the like – and understanding some the amount of new less-common abbrecredit that you have viations that agents taken on over the use in their ads or past several months. text messages can ••• seem as difficult as DEAR MR. MEY- reading “Odyssey” ERS: I’m fairly good in its original Greek at understanding text. the abbreviations Abbreviations vary MYERS that real estate from one area to the next. They also may were slated for saw- salespeople use in use all capital letmills. The surge has their advertisements, but two of ters, all lower-case added more than or a combination of $16,000 to the cost of them that I have a typical new home. seen lately have me the two. stumped. What is When “appls” are ••• included in a sale, DEAR MR. MEY- a “2C”? And what does it mean when you won’t be getting ERS: How is my “appls” are included a bushel of delicious FICO score calcuin a sale? fruit, but you will lated? ANSWER: I can’t be getting all of the ANSWER: A blame you for being home’s built-in apFICO credit score, confused. Most peopliances. used by about 90% A “2C” is agent of mortgage lenders ple know that, say, shorthand for a when they’re review- “3BR/2BA” stands for “three bedrooms, two-car garage. But ing a prospective two bathrooms,” but perhaps you’d be borrower’s application, is derived from the data in the files of the nation’s three largest credit OL bureaus – Experian, $219,500 PO G TransUnion and IN M IM Equifax. SW FICO focuses on five categories of information that the bureaus provide in order to calculate an individual’s overall score. The most 1710 N WILDWOOD DRIVE important factor is your payment 3BD/2B/1,876 sq. ft. history on past and Do you remember the house you always wanted to visit when you were current debts, which a kid? Well, this is it! 3 bedrooms, 2 accounts for 35% of full baths, study full of book shelves. the final tally. Lot and lots of storage space and, oh yeah, a pool! Complete with deck, Amounts that cabana, and sun room (bonus sun room you owe is the secis not included in the square footage). ond-most important Oversized two car garage. Quiet street factor, accounting for hidden in the middle of town. Come see for yourself! 30% of FICO’s calculation. The length of your credit history is third, at 15%. The remaining 20% is split evenly between your “credit mix” – mortgages, credit cards, automobile loans
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In last week’s column, we talked about the tendency for problem insects to be cyclical in nature, using fall armyworms as an example. This week’s topic is an example of a different type of insect outbreak, one that pops up suddenly and unexpectedly. The Payne County Extension office has received several calls from clients in the area reporting unusually high numbers of whiteflies in the landscape, on both ornamental and vegetable plants. Whiteflies are extremely small flyers and easy to mistake for a gnat at first glance. They can easily be identified when at rest (usually on the back sides of leaves) or as a “cloud” of insects when plants are disturbed. Whiteflies feed on plants much like aphids, they pierce the leaves and suck plant juices away. Also like aphids, this leaves honeydew (insect waste) on the leaves. This sugary substance then serves as a feeding ground for fungal diseases such as sooty mold. Fortunately, while it is not unheard of for whiteflies to cause direct damage for outdoor plants, it is rare and control is not usually suggested for a homeowner. This is especially
Tenants, landlords urge reform on state eviction laws Oklahoma lawmakers have come under pressure from advocates for tenant and landlord rights to reform the state’s eviction laws. Oklahoma courts last year handled 44,612 eviction cases, with more than 1,200 tenants a month receiving eviction notices in Tulsa County alone, according to
Tulsa World. Tulsa has the 11th highest eviction rate in the country. “Eviction is a pox on both houses,” Michael Figgins, the executive director of Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, told a House of Representatives committee hearing Thursday. “It’s not helping anyone.”
Figgins recommended three legislative changes: allowing eviction records to be expunged after a certain amount of time; extending how long tenants have to respond to an eviction notice; and giving tenants a right to legal counsel during an eviction hearing. Tracy Streich, a property manager
who testified on behalf of landlords, told the committee that eviction only becomes an option after all other options have been exhausted, and that the tenant usually bears responsibility when a case reaches that point. Statewide, 5% of landlords – mainly large property companies – filed more
than 60% of eviction cases last year. The Legislature could standardize rules for evictions, which vary from county to county, Streich said. “What is a reasonable late fee? What is a reasonable amount of time to wait for someone to catch up?” he asked. “If we knew what the
rules were going in, I think it would cut down on the frivolous evictions.” And though the coronavirus pandemic has helped reduce the number of evictions since the state shutdown caused courtrooms to close, officials say 40 million people nationally and 500,000 in Oklahoma could
face eviction due to high unemployment and other economic consequences from the pandemic. “There won’t be a single Oklahoman that doesn’t feel the effects of this crisis,” said Becky Gligo, housing policy director for the city of Tulsa. – Tulsa World via AP
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vision. The CPSC television. Items described as “television recommends that all televisions be sestands” or “media centers” are designed cured by mounting or anchoring them to hold televisions, to the wall. Properly but size and weight restrictions also must mounted televisions be considered when likely won’t come off buying such products. the wall no matter TV stands and media how curious kids are, centers are only safe but no item should be if they are designed lower than 27 inches to hold televisions . 1-3from the ground. un Parents who can’t or that are the sizeSof n your TV.Ope don’t want to mount • Secure the teletheir televisions can
purchases anchoring kits, which the CPSC notes cost as little as $5 and take as few as five minutes to install. Parents hesitant to do the job themselves can have televisions mounted or anchored by professional installers for a nominal fee. Many electronics retailers offer installation New services as well. Price! • Secure top-heavy
that a lot of newly built furniture is sold with anti-tip devices. These devices should be installed immediately so children are safe from the moment a new piece is brought into the home. • Remove tempting objects. Curious kids may try to climb furniture if they see
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Carolina. On the money side, stability is In a year that has straightforward. thrown a pandemic, “You have a budnatural disasters get, you know and economic cawhere your money lamity at us while is going, and you we lurch closer know how much to a presidential you should be election, stability saving to meet can feel elusive. No your bigger goals,” matter how well Coambs says. laid your plans, “What’s a little some new crisis harder is more might be lurking the state of mind,” around the corner, Coambs says. This waiting to upend financial peace of your life. mind is subjective While it’s never and looks different been more clear from one person to how much is out of the next. our control, you can Do some self-restill take steps to flection to pin improve your finan- down what stabilcial stability. And ity means for you. it’s not just about Maybe you don’t cash flow. want to feel anxious FIND YOUR when you check IDEA OF STAyour bank balance, BILITY or you hope to save Financial stabili- enough for retirety is both a state of ment so you won’t money and a state have to worry about of mind, says Ed the future. WhatevCoambs, a certified er your focus, feelfinancial planner ing stable means and certified finan- you won’t have to cial therapist near constantly worry Charlotte, North about money. By Sean Pyles
Student housing scarce for college students with kids that 28 institutions is provided, it creates closed their family a sense of inclusion, college’s student housing programs community and beparents. While I between 2014 and longing for student understood the need 2019, many without parents and their Before the family for this approach announcement. families, who often housing program in order to sustain This scarcity of feel unseen and exopened at his universervices for single student housing cluded from campus sity, Blake and his parents at the college, life. two young daughters poses a serious dilemma for the nearly I continued to stress While programs were couch-surfing that offer family at the homes of their 4 million undergrad- the importance of uate college students safe and affordable housing for student friends and family. parents exist, infor“They only saw me in the United States housing within the college community. – or more than one mation about these coming and going,” I worried about out of every five – programs can be difBlake explains, dethe fate of students who are parents. ficult to find. That’s scribing how he had like Blake who need I am a sociologist what led us to create to juggle a job at a housing to succeed in the Campus Family with expertise in local casino, college school. housing issues for Housing Database. classes and parentA serious To the best of ing as a single home- student parents. dilemma: I worked with the my knowledge, the less dad pursuing a College students program that helped database is the first career in nursing. Blake and his daugh- who are parents are online tool that idenWhen the univerdisproportionately tifies which colleges sity opened its family ters as part of an low-income and effort to replicate a and universities offer housing program students of color. In national program housing to college in 2014, Blake and addition, one in three students who are that promoted comhis daughters were students who are the parents. Galison and prehensive support among the first to first in their family for single parents. I collected data on move in. Living on to go to college are That comprehensive every regionally accampus changed support included safe parents. credited U.S. college their lives. The girls According to the and university. The claimed a place with- and affordable housTemple University ing. My job was to database is current in the college comserve as a consultant, Hope Center, 66% as of spring 2019, munity. They made of student parents provide technical asand we are working friends with people sistance and evaluate experience housing to update it for 2021. across campus, ate insecurity during Lack of campus with their dad in the the program from college, and an addi2013 through 2017. housing for students dining hall and did tional 16% experience who are parents is Eventually the homework together homelessness. When not just a housing college created an as a family. And basic needs such as on-campus resource issue. It’s an educaBlake was able to housing, food and center for these stution issue. When stubetter focus on his safety are not met dents and phased dent parents are able studies. for these families, out on-campus famto be part of campus According to a it becomes harder ily housing. This life and to spend Campus Family for them to focus on approach was less time with their chilHousing Database school and graduate. dren, they are more expensive and able that I created with When family housing likely to complete my colleague, Sarah to serve more of the Galison, just 8% of all U.S. colleges and OPEN HOUSES SUNDAY OCTOBER 11TH universities offer on-campus housing for college students who are parents. This does not take into consideration 3903 W Eagle Creek 6108 N Platinum Drive whether the hous$534,900 $264,900 ing is affordable, or Madilynn Young 2-4 pm Josh Porter 1-3 pm the number, size or 911 S. MAIN STREET availability of family (405) 332-5553 housing units. Furkwstillwaterok.com thermore, we found By Autumn Green
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their degrees. Building a community: Some colleges have had on-campus housing programs for student parents since just after World War II. One of them is the University of Oregon, which I attended as a young undergraduate student – and a parent with two kids. Living on campus and enrolling my children in the college’s child care center, I had only to walk across the parking lot to drop off and pick up my kids each day, before riding my bicycle to class. I connected with other sociology major moms who lived in the family housing community. We held study groups in the living rooms of each other’s on-campus apartments while our kids played together in the next room. I always knew my rent and utility bills were paid, because they were deducted from my financial aid each
term. I graduated with honors, magna cum laude and an acceptance letter to graduate school. Paying attention: Now that university budgets are becoming tight due to COVID-19, I worry that student parents won’t be seen as a priority, if they are seen at all. Many universities don’t even track the number of their students who are parents, leaving them unaware of whether those students’ needs are being met. Advocates of student housing for parents say that must change. “Deliberately collecting student parent data is the only way colleges and universities can accurately quantify their student parents each term,” said Mary Ann DeMario, institutional research specialist at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New
York and lead on the Single Mothers Success Design Challenge, which focuses on helping single mother students get through school, in an email exchange for this article. “Moreover, it allows institutions to uncover the types of student parents they have.” DeMario collects data on the number and age of the children of student parents at her institution. This can be important for assessing need for services such as family housing and childcare on-campus. Nationally, most student parents have 1 to 2 children, and 53% have a child under age 6. When students who have kids succeed, society benefits. College graduates embark on careers that are meaningful to them, earn higher wages that make them less likely to live in poverty and are more likely to volunteer and contribute in their communities.
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