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Emerald Ash borer causing tree decline If you are a regular reader of landscape plant related news from other parts of the country, the following comes as no surprise. Ash trees in the eastern United States are being devastated (i.e. virtually wiped out) by the Emerald Ash borer (EAB). The EAB was introduced to this country in the Detroit area in the 1990’s and has spread rapidly over the last 20 years. Travelers in the eastern part of the U.S. over the last decade (including Oklahoma) may have noticed purple triangular boxes hanging in an occasional tree, especially in heavily wooded areas. These are EAB traps designed and placed to monitor the spread of this pest. The bad news is as of last fall, the EAB has been captured in eastern Oklahoma. All indications are this pest will quickly spread around the state just as it has been doing across the rest of the country. The good news is that, for the most part, few of us in Payne County have a large number of ash trees. There are a couple of reasons for this. Oklahoma is on the western limit for the natural range of this tree. Also, in addition to
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at 405-747-8320, or in person at the Payne County Extension office, located at 315 W. 6th in Stillwater.
KEITH REED the EAB, there are already a number of native tree borers that attack ash trees in our area, limiting its widespread adoption as a landscape tree. If you walk outside after reading this and see holes in your ash trees, please do not assume they are from the Emerald ash borer. If you do have high value ash trees on your property, there is a small chance you might be able to protect your tree against this pest. However, please
do not discount the emphasis placed on small chance. There are only a couple of insecticides labeled for control of this insect and even those offer limited protection. Indiscriminate applications of insecticides “just in case” will not be helpful, and may actually do more harm than good by killing beneficial insects. OSU has recently released two helpful documents on this pest: L-443 Signs and Symptoms of Emerald Ash Borer and L-461 Native Woodborers and
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Many benefits to hiring a property manager Retire with Rentals AUSTIN FRUECHTING prospective tenants on evenings or weekends. The list goes on and on. Inevitably, you will get an emergency call late at night or on the weekend that requires immediate attention. You have to be prepared to drop everything right at that moment and go take care of things. I got a call one Friday evening as I was out to dinner with friends. We were having a great time and then I get call about flooding in a unit. A tenant had flushed a toilet in the morning on the second floor right before leaving and it had been overflowing for ten hours. Not only did I have to immediately leave, I spent the next several hours just containing the situation and the next several days dealing with the aftermath. In short, the value of having someone else
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take care of everything far outweighs the cost of hiring a property manager. It can be challeng-
ing when you own the property to treat it as a business. As a landlord, be prepared for every sob story and excuse for why your tenant doesn’t have their rent on time. Weepyeyed they will come to you, begging for compassion, asking you to waive the late fees just this once. They will make
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Last week we talked about a couple of the reasons in favor of managing your property yourself. You can potentially save a lot of money and gain valuable experience. This week we’ll explore why you might want to hire a property manager. The list of benefits of this approach is much longer than I can fit in this column, so I’ll just dig into the major advantages. First, managing properties well is a lot of work. Second, property managers can help you treat your investments as a business. I built and sold a property management company so I have personally experienced the ups and downs of directly managing properties. Sometimes it can be as easy as collecting the rent check and depositing it each month. Other times, you have to chase tenants down to collect the rent, post notices to vacate, leave whatever you’re doing to take care of emergency repairs, do showings to
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By Debbie Arrington 4 to 10 pounds of The Sacramento Bee squash per plant per day. The sample I FAIR OAKS, Calif. _ Apparently, tried looked like a green butternut a lot of people like squash with tender, growing zucchini – sweet white flesh as well as the idea and few seeds. The of sharing it with squash tends to others. get wider before Fair Oaks garit grows longer, dener Dale Creabut can eventually sey found that out resemble a douquickly when he ble-wide baseball offered to share bat. seed for his “Super “The zucchini is producer hybrid generally fatter, but zucchini” with othmost also get loners. An accidental ger the bigger they cross between an become,” Creasey Italian squash and explained. “Being a a small pumpkin, hybrid, they can be this fast-growing hybrid can produce of many shapes!”
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During his retirement, Creasey turned his interest from water to gardening. Creasey, 84, worked as a planning hydrologist with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for 27 years. He now tends about a quarter-acre vegetable garden, dedicated to contributing fresh produce to needy families. Each summer, he contributes more than a ton of vegetables (mostly squash and toma-
toes) to local food banks and charities. That was his inspiration for sharing his squash seed. The more people who grow this prolific squash, the more possible donations to others in need. As the tale of “Dale’s super squash” worked its way throughout the state and across the country, he got requests for seeds from as far away as New York. “I probably
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“One year, I had six hybrid zucchini plants on this hill. They produced 60 pounds – or more – of fruits every day for several months. I took 2,500 pounds to the food closet. Some went to Loaves & Fishes, Saint John’s women’s shelter and Union Gospel Mission.” Gardeners who would like some hybrid zucchini seeds may send their request to Creasey at creaseymark@ surewest.net.
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have exceeded 200 emails, and it is continuing,” he said. “I did not expect to become a national celebrity.” “I also plan to send seeds to the many charitable organizations that help those overseas, with descriptions and instructions (on how to grow),” he said. Creasey shared the secret behind his amazing harvests: He plants his squash in mulch hills.
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confuses us. What is a “waiver of subrogation?” ANSWER: All lenders require borrowers to first get a preliminary homeowners policy, or “binder,” before they’ll approve a mortgage to buy a house. After all, if there’s no insurance policy in place after the buyers move in and the property is then damaged or destroyed, the bank could suffer a huge financial loss. Most homeowners policies, commonly called an “HO-3,” include a waiver of subrogation clause. It allows the insurer who pays a homeowner’s claim to later sue the other party who caused the damage.
To illustrate, let’s say that Joe Homeowner’s property is damaged by a distracted driver who plows into Joe’s front porch. The insurer pays $10,000 to have Joe’s porch restored to its original condition. Joe has been, in insurance parlance, “made whole” by the company. The waiver of subrogation clause, though, limits Joe from suing the reckless driver for additional money for repairs. But the clause allows the insurer to step into Joe’s shoes and sue the driver to recover the company’s losses that it suffered from the payments it had made to restore Joe’s porch.
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Most small and big appliances will soon be at their lowest prices of the year, but other items will be even cheaper a few months from now. DEAR MR. MYERS: What are the best household items to buy on “Black Friday?” ANSWER: Black Friday, which kicks off the retail industry’s biggest sales season of the year, has traditionally started the day after Thanksgiving. America will observe Thanksgiving Day on Nov. 23, but many stores have already slashed prices to Black Friday levels, and some will continue to offer those savings A s first sociates throughR&the E A LT Y week of December. November typical-
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sellers, especially seniors who expect to depend on the cash raised from their sale to supplement their incomes during their retirement years. Like the House bill, the Senate version rejiggers the taxfree formula in order to slash the number of sellers eligible to use this benefit. To qualify, sellers would have to live in their homes for five out of the preceding eight years, and could only use the tax-free provision once every five years. That’s likely to create problems for
young families who move from their first home within the first five years and people who are transferred or move to new jobs more quickly than they had originally planned. Bottom line: The changes the bills propose to make in home real estate rules are drastic, but they are no sure thing. Don’t panic quite yet – this game is just getting started. Ken Harney’s email address is kenharney@earthlink.net.
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starting next Jan 1. • Tax-free gains. The Senate bill would also make a major change in one of the most valuable current tax benefits for homeowners – the ability to pocket capital gains on home sales free of federal taxation. Under the current tax code, home sellers filing jointly can “exclude” up to $500,000 of gains from a sale (up to $250,000 for single filers) tax-free, provided they have lived in and used the property as their principal residence for an aggregate two years out of the preceding five years. That’s a big deal for many
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WASHINGTON – If you hoped that Senate Republicans would treat homeowners and buyers more kindly in their tax overhaul plans than their colleagues did in the House, you were an optimist. It didn’t happen. In fact, the Senate tax bill released last week is harsher on residential real estate in some areas than the House version, with two notable exceptions: Senate tax writers retained the current $1 million ceiling on home mortgage amounts that are eligible for interest deductions. The House bill seeks to cut that in half to $500,000. But the Senate’s seeming concession has limited value, given that only a small fraction of homeowners in the U.S. have mortgages of $500,000 to $1 million. Also, the Senate bill leaves intact mortgage-interest deductions on second homes; the House bill would eliminate them. Here’s a quick look at some key punitive details in the Senate bill’s fine print that haven’t gotten much attention but could be important to you: • Home equity loans. Under current law, you can borrow
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