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FREAL ESTATESATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012 THE OKLAHOMAN | NEWSOK.COM

INDEX

Stone 5FPermits 6F

HOUSE PLAN

MediterraneantouchRefreshing Mediterraneaninfluences inspire thecontemporary SpanishGrandeza.PAGE 7F

LISTING OF THE WEEK

SpacioushomeA large two-story brick house inNichols Hill has almost 5,000square feet of living space.

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FHA addingrestrictionson sellersThe Federal HousingAdministration plansto impose significantrestrictions on theamount of moneysellers can contrib-ute at settlementsin the near future.

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IN BRIEF

ARCHITECTS’TOUR SETFOR APRIL 14The American In-stitute of ArchitectsCentral OklahomaChapter will presentthe 11th annual Ar-chitectural Tourfrom noon to 6 p.m.April 14. The self-guided tour willinclude six resi-dential propertiesamong its ninestops. Advance tick-ets go on sale March26 through April 12,and can be pur-chased online atwww.aiacoc.org/touror at Taparchitec-ture, 415 N Broad-way, or the AIACentral Oklahomaoffice, 3535 N Clas-sen Blvd. Tickets willbe $15 the day of thetour at any tourstop.

TOUCH LAMPSAND NEWLIGHTBULBSQ. Will the newlightbulbs workwith touch lamps?A: There are severalrelatively new typesof lightbulbs on themarket, but youprobably are re-ferring to eithercompact fluorescentor LED bulbs. Eitherkind might pose aproblem with sometouch lamps. Light-ing consultant TerryMcGowan said thatif a touch lamp has amechanical switch, itwill work with anyCFL or LED bulb.However, if the lamphas an electronicswitch, you’ll need touse a CFL or LEDbulb that’s speciallymarked as dim-mable. Even thenyou may have someproblems, he said.You can tell whatkind of switch thelamp has by puttinga standard incan-descent bulb of 40to 60 watts in thesocket and thentrying the switchwhile listening care-fully. If you hear aclick when the lampis turned on and off,then the switch ismechanical. If youdon’t hear a click, it’selectronic.

STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

Are you a homeowner who forseveral years has been sitting onthe sidelines waiting for a strongermarket before you sell? Are you fi-nally ready to put your place up forsale this spring?

If so, you’re not alone, said Ro-nald Phipps, a real estate brokerand recent president of the Na-tional Association of Realtors(www.realtor.org).

“Home sellers are more prag-matic now. They’re no longerholding their families and planshostage for some magical pricethey might have gotten in the past.They’re ready to sell now,” Phippssaid.

Eric Tyson, a personal financeexpert and co-author of “HouseSelling for Dummies,” said anyoneplanning to sell a home shouldtake all the time necessary to findthe strongest available real estateagent to list the property.

How can you screen agents tofind the best one for your listing?

Jodi R.R. Smith, a human re-

sources trainer who heads her ownconsulting firm (www.mannersmith.com) suggests you create apreliminary list of five to 10 agentswho are recommended by peopleyou know. Then prescreen eachwith a brief phone interview. Fo-cus on the agents with whom youestablish a rapport, and ditch theones you don’t.

This should leave you withabout three or four agents. Nowit’s time for in-person interviews.Here are a few pointers:

I Pose open-ended questionsto the candidates.

As the founder of MarketStar,(www.marketstar.com), a large

sales and marketing company,Alan Hall has interviewed hun-dreds of job applicants. Experi-ence has taught him that open-ended questions elicit the mostrevealing answers.

“For example, ask them about apast failure they had in their realestate career and how they han-dled it. They should tell you howthey turned failure into a learningexperience. If they stumble in re-sponse, that’s not a good sign,”Hall said.

I Request statistics on eachagent’s past performance.

Smith recommends you ask allthe candidates for data on thehomes they’ve sold in the past sixmonths. In each case, what per-centage of the list price did thehomeowners obtain? And howmany days did the property sit onthe market before it sold? She alsocautions against hiring an agentwho promises to get you muchmore than the others say yourhome is worth.

I Screen for frankness but al-so good manners.

Smith said you should consideronly those agents who are candidin assessing the changes needed tomake your property sell for its fullmarket value. But you don’t wantsomeone who is overly blunt.

“I need to know, for example,that my NASCAR-themed bath-room must be painted over. But Iwant someone to tell me tactfully,”Smith said.

She recommends you tell all theagents how much money you havefor pre-sale upgrades and then askthem to give you a list of priorities.

“Ask for their gut reactions andwhether, for example, you wouldbe better off spending the moneyyou have to plant flowers besideyour front entrance or to paintyour bathroom. The right agentshould have good suggestions thatfit in your budget,” Smith said.

To contact Ellen James Martin, email her [email protected].

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Tips to get best agent for home saleEllenJamesMartin

SMARTMOVES

NORMAN — For DanReeves, a single phone callfrom his wife, Amy, wouldchange everything.

“She called me one dayand said, ‘Hey, we haven’tseen each other in a coupleof years,’ ” he recalled witha laugh.

She had a point. Theyworked opposite shifts —Dan Reeves as a field train-ing officer with the Okla-homa City Police Depart-ment, and Amy Reeves asan elementary schoolteacher. Their spare timewas gobbled up by thegrowing homebuildingwork they had going on theside.

“And I was glad shecalled,” Dan Reeves said. “Iwas tired.”

“And so we took a leapof faith,” Amy Reeves said,“left our careers and start-ed a homebuilding com-pany.”

Eleven years later, thereare no regrets, not evenwith a market downturn

thrown in to complicatethings. Dan Reeves creditshis police departmenttraining — “Prepare for theworst and hope for thebest” — for not only get-ting Landmark FineHomes through but evengrowing it a little.

“We retained earningsand (did) not just spend allour money, to make surewe’re going to be around totake care of our customersand our family and ouremployees,” he said. “Ithink you can see therewere a lot of other peoplewho were spending it asthey were making it, over-extending themselves.”

That was a factor earlierthis year when Buildermagazine, published bythe National Associationof Home Builders, namedLandmark America’s BestBuilder 2012 among build-ers its size, in the 25-100closings-per-year catego-ry. The award is hardly acosmetic one. Dan Reevessaid his company had toprovide details about itssystems and practices, ac-counting, employee reten-

tion and more when it ap-plied for the award.

“Having beautifulhomes, all that plays apart,” he said. “But it’s alittle easier to build a beau-tiful home than it is tobuild a company.”

His wife said, “A lot oftimes people, I think, mis-conceive America’s BestBuilder as just the sticksand brick and the exteriorand what you see. But itreally is a lot of the behindthe scenes, how you runyour organization.”

Beyond bricks, mortarAmy and Dan Reeves

grew up in the Moore-Norman area, were highschool sweethearts andnow live within miles oftheir childhood homes.Both are active in the com-munity through Relay forLife, Central OklahomaHabitat for Humanity andthe American Red Cross.

Amy Reeves has servedwith the Salvation Armyfor years, including fouryears as kettle chairman,

Leap of faith leads Oklahomacouple to homebuilding dream

Landmark Fine Homes of Norman, named America’s Best Builder 2012 by Builder magazine, constructed this model home at 4601 King-sland Road in Norman. PHOTO BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN

Dan and Amy Reeves of Landmark Fine Homes ofNorman, named as America’s Best Builder by BuilderMagazine, are shown at a model home in Norman.

PHOTO BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN

BY DYRINDA TYSONFor The [email protected]

SEE LANDMARK, PAGE 2F

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and Landmark’s annual“Thanksmas” bringsfriends, colleagues andfamilies together duringthe holidays at one of itsmodel homes to collectfood and toys for the Sal-vation Army. The Reeveschildren — Kaitlin, a soph-omore at the University ofOklahoma, Matt, 13, andMackenzie, 10 — often areinvolved as well.

“It feels natural to be outthere helping and teachingmy kids to do the same,”Amy Reeves said.

Dan Reeves cut his con-struction teeth in highschool and college workingwith his uncle LyndseyGay, who owns L.G. Con-struction in OklahomaCity. Reeves put that expe-rience to work in his sparetime after going to work asa police officer, heedingthe advice of another unclewho also worked in lawenforcement.

“He said, ‘Don’t workextra police jobs becauseyou’ll die a young man,’ ”Reeves recalled.

So Reeves built instead.And the buyers came.Then he built more, andmore buyers came.

“And it was growing andgrowing,” he said. “And(Amy) was doing the booksafter teaching all day. Andwe grew it. Basically itcame to us.”

And Dan Reeves’ back-ground didn’t hurt. “Fromthe police department,people knew they couldtrust us,” he said. So Land-mark has built for districtattorneys, federal officials,judges and fellow policeofficers.

Staying the courseEven so, the maelstrom

unleashed when the na-tion’s economy began toslide in 2008 made itselffelt. Reeves recalled the2009 International HomeBuilders Show he and hiswife attended in Las Vegas.They stopped in the mid-dle of the Vegas Strip asAmy Reeves took a phonecall.

“Of course, from mypolice days, I don’t want tostop because it’s kind of adangerous place,” he said.“And I remember stop-ping, and I turn and lookbehind me, and there wasnobody as far as I couldsee. And I looked the otherdirection, and there wasnobody.”

The downturn and itssqueeze on OklahomaCity’s housing marketwould provide white-knuckle moments.

“It’s kind of like drivingthrough a snowstormwhen you’ve got bothhands on the wheel,” DanReeves said. “You’re notsure of where you’re going,but you’re being really

careful, and you can stillmanage through thesnowstorm, but it’s dan-gerous.”

And it paid off. Land-mark continued to growthrough the downturn,and now he and his wife areready to see what the fu-

ture brings.“Staying with teaching

and staying with the policedepartment — we knewwhere that ended,” Reevessaid. “And we had thisdream, and if we didn’tpursue this, we wouldn’tknow where we ended up.”

Landmark: Continues to growFROM PAGE 1F

This bathroom joins two bedrooms in the LandmarkFine Homes model in Norman.


Planning a garage sale in Okla-homa City? Don’t forget to get a per-mit.

Permits are $7 and are availableonline by logging on to www.okc.gov, calling 297-2606 or by visitingOklahoma City’s licensing office at420 W Main downtown. The permitnumber will be given to applicants

over the phone and must be posted atthe sale location.

Each household is allowed to havetwo garage sales annually. The salemust be held between 8 a.m. and 6p.m. and each permit is good forthree consecutive days.

People who enjoy bargain huntingat garage sales can log on to to view

daily garage sale listings throughoutOklahoma City. The listing is free tothose who get the required permit fortheir garage sale.

Garage sale signs are not allowedon utility poles, traffic sign poles,medians or in the city right of way.For more information, log on towww.okc.gov.

City garage sales require $7 permit

The upstairs media room features lounge chairs and big screen in the Landmark Fine Homes model.PHOTO BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN

This view shows the breakfast dining area next to the kitchen in the Landmark Fine Homes model in Norman.PHOTO BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN

A recessed ceiling and crown molding accent themaster bedroom in the Landmark Fine Homes modelat 4601 Kingsland Road in Norman.


THE OKLAHOMAN | NEWSOK.COM SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012 . 3FREAL ESTATE

WASHINGTON — If you’reconsidering buying ahouse with a FederalHousing Administration-backed mortgage and ex-pect the seller to help outwith your closing costs,here’s a heads-up: FHAplans to impose significantrestrictions on the amountof money sellers can con-tribute at settlements inthe near future.

On top of that, FHA alsowill be raising its mortgageinsurance premiums dur-ing the coming weeks, in-creasing charges for newpurchasers across theboard.

You might ask: Why hitus with additional finan-cial burdens right now, justas housing is showingmodest signs of recoveryin many areas, and thespring buying season isgetting under way?

One big reason why:Over the past six years,FHA has been the turn-around champ of residen-tial real estate, offeringdown payments as low as3.5 percent despite the re-cession and housing bust,growing its market sharefrom 3 percent to 25 per-cent-plus. The program isnow financing 40 percentor more of all new homepurchases in some metro-politan areas and is a cru-cial resource for first-timebuyers and moderate-in-come families, especiallyminorities.

With a maximum loanlimit of $729,750 in high-cost areas, it is also a forcein some of the country’smost expensive markets —California, Washington,D.C., New York and partsof New England.

But during the samespan of rapid growth,FHA’s insurance fund cap-ital reserves have steadilydeteriorated — far belowcongressionally mandatedlevels. Delinquencies havebeen increasing.

According to the latestquarterly survey by theMortgage Bankers Associ-ation, FHA delinquenciesrose to 12.4 percent com-pared with a 4.1 percentaverage for prime (FannieMae-Freddie Mac) con-ventional fixed-rate mort-gages and 6.6 percent forVeterans Administration-backed loans.

As a result, FHA is un-der the gun, from Con-gress and from within theObama administration, toget its own house in order,cut insurance claims andrebuild its reserves. Theupcoming squeezes onseller contributions andbumps in premiums aresteps in this direction, butmay not be the last.

The seller-contributioncutbacks could be painful,particularly in areas of thecountry where closingcosts and home prices arerelatively high.

Here’s what’s involved:Traditionally, FHA has

been uniquely generous inallowing home sellers —including builders mar-keting new construction —to sweeten the pot for pur-chasers by chipping inmoney to defray closingcosts. FHA currently al-lows sellers to pay up to 6percent of the price of thehouse toward their buyers’settlement expenses. Fan-nie Mae and Freddie Mac,by comparison, cap con-tributions at 3 percent.VA’s ceiling is 4 percent.

Under newly proposedrules, the FHA cap woulddrop to the greater of 3percent of the home priceor $6,000. In sales involv-

ing houses priced at$100,000 or below, thiswouldn’t change anything($6,000 equals 6 percentof $100,000). But on allsales above this threshold,the squeeze would get pro-gressively tighter. On a$200,000 home, a buyercould today ask the sellerto pay for $12,000 of a longlist of settlement chargesincluding all prepaid loanexpenses, discount pointson the loan, interest ratebuy-downs and upfrontFHA insurance premiums,among others.

Under the proposedcutback, the maximumamount would be slashedin half. On many hometransactions, the reduc-tions would force sellers tolower their prices to enablecash-short buyers to getthrough the closing. Inother cases, sales mightsimply be too far of astretch for some purchas-ers.

The proposed cuts areopen to public commentthrough the end of thismonth, but are highly like-ly to be adopted in muchthe same form soon after-ward. FHA also is restrict-ing the types of “closingcosts” that sellers can pay.Six months’ or a year’sworth of interest paymentsor homeowner associationdues in advance no longerwill be permitted — a seri-ous blow to many builderswho use these as financialcarrots.

Beyond these changes,

FHA also plans significantincreases in insurance pre-miums — from 1 percent to1.75 percent on its upfrontpremiums, effective April1, and annual premiums by0.1 percent on all loans un-der $625,000 and 0.35percent on mortgageamounts above that, ef-fective June 1.

William McCue, presi-dent of McCue MortgageCo. in New Britain, Conn.,which does a sizable per-centage of its businesswith FHA, said the cumu-lative impact of all these

increases “will not justcrowd first-time buyersout of the FHA market. Itwill prevent them fromowning a home that absentthese new costs would beaffordable.”

Bottom line: Nail downyour FHA money and sell-er-contribution negotia-tions as soon as you canbecause later looks a lotmore expensive.

Ken Harney’s email address [email protected].

WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP

KennethHarney

THE NATION’S HOUSING

‘Pay up’ is new message from FHA


Tracy Ratliff Julie Reeser

Peter Lehmann Angie Seabrook

EDMOND — Ticketsfor the St. Jude DreamHome Giveaway are forsale at all CitizensBank of Edmond loca-tions or by calling(800) 592-1596. A lim-ited number of $100tickets will be sold.

This year’s house is by Dunhill FineHomes on a 1-acre lot in The Lake atChitwood Farms addition near PostRoad and 15th Street. The 3,900-

square-foot house, val-ued at $575,000, willhave four bedrooms, 4 ½baths, a study, gameroom, three-car garageand covered patio.

In addition to thehouse, other prizes willinclude a $1,000 shop-

ping spree at Conn’s, fondue for twofor a year at The Melting Pot, a$1,000 gift certificate at OnCue Ex-press and others.

Winners of the St. Jude DreamHome Giveaway will be drawn liveJune 24 on Fox 25.

Sponsors of the event, a fundraiserfor St. Jude Children’s Research Hos-pital in Memphis, Tenn., include Fox25, 101.9 The Twister, Dunhill FineHomes, Turner & Co., Citizens Bankof Edmond, Edmond Furniture Gal-lery, Legacy Cleaners & Laundry, TheOklahoman, Slice Magazine, EpsilonSigma Alpha International, Brizo andShaw Flooring.

Dream home tickets are on sale

EDMOND — The BradReeser Team at Keller Wil-liams Realty, 10 E Camp-bell in Edmond, was rec-ognized as the No. 3 KellerWilliams team in thecountry, and the No. 5team in number of unitssold, at the recent KellerWilliams national conven-tion in Orlando, Fla.

The Reeser team alsowas recognized at the Kell-er Williams Oklahoma re-gional awards banquet inNorman as the top team inunits closed and for out-standing production at thebrand’s Double PlatinumLevel. The team includesBrad Reeser, Tracy Ratcliff,Julie Reeser, Peter Leh-mann and Angie Seabrook.

Keller Williams RealtyInc., founded in 1983, has

almost 700 offices andmore than 75,000 associ-ates in the United Statesand Canada.

Brad ReeserTeam gets topRealtor honor

Brad Reeser


DEAR BARRY: In one of yourarticles, you said, “The essentialpurpose of home inspection is todisclose property defects.” If thatis true, why don’t home inspec-tors use the top tools of the trade,such as thermal cameras, bore-scopes and moisture meters?

In my opinion, most home in-spectors are retired general con-tractors with a lock on Realtorreferrals. I am a new home in-spector, but I provide a far morethorough inspection than mycompetitors who don’t use spe-cialized testing equipment. Theproblem, however, is getting realestate agents to refer me to theirclients. They all seem to use thesame few home inspectors whohave been here forever. Can youoffer any help on this?

MarkDEAR MARK: When I said

that the essential purpose of ahome inspection is “to discloseproperty defects,” I didn’t mean

that the purpose is to discloseevery possible property defect. Ifhome inspectors intended to dis-close every possible defect, ther-mal cameras, borescopes, andmoisture meters would definite-ly be needed, as you suggest. Buteven then, the inspections wouldnot be complete.

To provide disclosure of allpossible defects, inspectorswould need to take air samplesfor mold, to place test canistersfor radon gas, and to sample var-ious materials for possible asbe-stos fiber and lead content. Butthat’s not all. Home inspections

would not be complete without astructural analysis of the foun-dations, which would requirethat the inspectors be licensedstructural engineers or that theysubcontract with a structuralengineer on every inspection.

Inspectors would also need totake core samples of propertysites to ensure geological stabil-ity and to evaluate subsurfacewater drainage characteristicsbased upon soil composition.This, of course, would requirecredentials as a licensed geo-technical engineer. Homeswould also need to be tested forelectromagnetic fields, for soilcontamination, and for off-gassing of synthetic compoundssuch as urea formaldehyde.

This list could be expanded al-most indefinitely if the essentialpurpose of a home inspectionwas to disclose all possible prop-erty defects. In truth, home in-spections are preliminary visual

inspections, not technically ex-haustive evaluations.

A home inspection is analo-gous to the routine annual phys-ical that you receive from yourdoctor. Family physicians don’tdo EKGs or CAT scans as part ofan annual exam. Instead, theylook for indications that suchtests might be necessary. If so,they refer you to specialists. Inthe same way, a competent homeinspector is looking for condi-tions that might warrant furtherevaluation by specialists such as

plumbers, electricians, geotech-nical engineers, or registered en-vironmental assessors.

It might surprise you to knowhow very thorough many homeinspectors are in their forensicduties, how able they are to findsignificant defects without theuse of sophisticated testing de-vices.

As for referrals by real estateagents, there are many reasonswhy they recommend particularhome inspectors. Some refer theinspectors they believe will pro-vide the most thorough disclo-sure, while others refer inspec-tors who are not so thorough andare perceived as less likely toscare away their buyers.

Either way, it takes persistentmarketing to develop a base ofagents who will routinely rec-ommend you to their clients.

To write to Barry Stone, visit him on the web atwww.housedetective.com.

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INSPECTOR’S IN THEHOUSE

New home inspector feeling his oatsIt might surpriseyou to know howvery thoroughmany homeinspectors are intheir forensicduties.


Oklahoma CityLingo Construction Ser-

vices, 1117 N Robinson Ave.,apartment, remodel,$3,000,000.

Clark Construction,1226 N Shartel Ave., med-ical clinic-office, erect,$1,500,000.

Allenton Homes & De-velopment LLC, 11732Burning Oaks Road, resi-dence, erect, $1,100,000.

Sawatzky ConstructionLLC, 10701 NW 2, manu-facturing, erect,$700,000.

Sawatzky ConstructionLLC, 10609 NW 2, manu-facturing, erect, $672,000.

Prestige CustomHomes, 2921 NW 156, of-fice, erect, $640,000.

Jomac ConstructionCo., 4732 NW 1, office-warehouse, erect,$572,000.

Oak Leaf CustomHomes, 10300 BerrywoodDrive, residence, erect,$550,000.

Oak Leaf CustomHomes, 6501 NE 101, resi-dence, erect, $470,000.

Don Kaspereit, 137 NE138, office-warehouse,erect, $425,000.

Craig Smith BuildingInc., 13600 Cascata Strada,residence, erect, $410,000.

Home First Inc., 15100Turtle Lake Place, resi-dence, erect, $396,000.

ACP Associates LLC,3029 NW 157, residence,erect, $375,000.

Moda Architecture,3500 S Council Road, shellbuilding, erect, $350,000.

Pedro Garcia, 14500 NSara Road, residence,erect, $320,000.

R&R Homes LLC, 10729SW 36, residence, erect,$300,000.

R&R Homes LLC, 10733SW 36, residence, erect,$300,000.

G.L. Cobbs & Co. LLC,11800 Sawgrass Road, resi-dence, erect, $280,000.

J. Hill Homes Inc., 9116SW 30 Terrace, residence,erect, $250,000.

Jeff Click Homes LLC,1516 NW 176, residence,erect, $245,000.

Jeff Click Homes LLC,17321 Parkgrove Drive, resi-dence, erect, $245,000.

Ron James DesignerHomes LLC, 6909 ChelseyLane, residence, erect,$243,200.

4 Corners ConstructionLLC, 11332 Marbella Drive,residence, erect, $237,000.

4 Corners ConstructionLLC, 11324 Marbella Drive,

residence, erect, $233,000.J.W. Mashburn Develop-

ment Inc., 3125 SW 137Court, residence, erect,$230,000.

Ideal Homes of NormanLP, 18605 Mesa Road, resi-dence, erect, $222,000.

J.W. Mashburn Develop-ment Inc., 3120 SW 137Court, residence, erect,$220,000.

Robert Ogle, 2804 Mi-rage, residence, erect,$220,000.

Ripple Creek HomesLLC, 12600 PonderosaBlvd., residence, erect,$210,000.

Willa Construction Co.Inc., 3021 SW 137, resi-dence, erect, $210,000.

Sun Contracting LLC,9032 NW 147 Terrace, resi-dence, erect, $200,000.

Lingo Construction Ser-vices Inc., 123 Robert S KerrAve., office, remodel,$200,000.

Woodland Homes, 1825NW 196, residence, erect,$200,000.

Smith & Pickel Con-struction, 3817 NorthwestExpressway, office, re-model, $200,000.

Brookshire Homes LLC,11308 SW 37, residence,erect, $200,000.



4 Corners ConstructionLLC, 14816 Almond ValleyDrive, residence, erect,$197,000.

Authentic CustomHomes LLC, 14309 BrinleyWay, residence, erect,$191,000.

Debbie Gregory Homes,9028 NW 83, residence,erect, $190,000.

R.W. Custom HomesLLC, 1813 NW 196, resi-dence, erect, $190,000.

Authentic CustomHomes LLC, 8417 NW 143Terrace, residence, erect,$188,710.

Taber Built Homes LLC,2412 NW 155, residence,erect, $180,000.

Taber Built Homes LLC,15412 Homecoming Drive,residence, erect, $180,000.

Taber Built Homes LLC,15408 Homecoming Drive,residence, erect, $180,000.

Samples (Mark) HomesLLC, 7408 Kaylee Way,residence, erect, $175,000.

No name provided, 1220NW 29, residence, erect,$175,000.

Affinity Homes LLC, 16SW 174, residence, erect,$170,000.

Marathon Builders Inc.,8400 SW 27, residence,erect, $170,000.

Marathon Builders Inc.,8400 SW 27, residence,erect, $170,000.

Taber Built Homes LLC,15609 Cardinal Nest Drive,residence, erect, $160,000.

Tom VorderlandwehrInc., 9108 NW 92 Terrace,residence, erect, $155,000.

Affinity Homes LLC, 120SW 174, residence, erect,$150,000.

Taber Built Homes LLC,15605 Cardinal Nest Drive,residence, erect, $150,000.

Tom Rud, 1901 North-west Expressway, restau-rant, remodel, $150,000.

4 Corners ConstructionLLC, 5725 SE 142, resi-dence, erect, $144,000.

Home Creations, 16217Capulet Drive, residence,erect, $141,400.

Site Excel, 4420 SW 3,tower-antenna, install,$140,000.

Rausch Coleman HomesLLC, 9604 Lauren Drive,residence, erect, $130,000.

Westpoint Homes, 5916NW 151, residence, erect,$130,000.

D.R. Horton, 11104 SW40, residence, erect,$122,700.

Dodson Custom HomesLLC, 2304 NW 195, resi-dence, erect, $118,000.

Dodson Custom HomesLLC, 2308 NW 195, resi-dence, erect, $112,000.

Rausch Coleman HomesLLC, 9601 Lauren Drive,residence, erect,$109,000.

Home Creations, 6229SE 80, residence, erect,$101,100.

Price Edwards & Co., 211N Robinson Ave., office,remodel, $100,000.

Gardner Construction,6015 S Portland Ave., of-fice, remodel, $100,000.

E.V. Cox Construction,5100 W Reno Ave., ware-house, erect, $100,000.

Home Creations, 6205SE 79, storm shelter, erect,$97,000.

McAlister ConstructionInc., 2515 N Francis Ave.,residence, erect, $95,000.

Dale Montz, 9617 ShadyCourt, residence, modular,$94,000.

Home Creations, 12704Nittany Drive, residence,erect, $90,300.

Ron Walters HomesLLC, 516 N Bath Ave., resi-dence, erect, $90,000.

Ron Walters HomesLLC, 513 N Bath Ave., resi-dence, erect, $90,000.

Home Creations, 5601Marblewood Drive, resi-dence, erect, $85,800.


Ron Walters HomesLLC, 1615 NE 12, residence,

erect, $85,000.Ron Walters Homes

LLC, 536 SE 16, residence,erect, $85,000.

Kent Hoffman Con-struction, 216 NW 59, au-tomotive repair-wash, re-model, $82,960.

Home Creations, 11117NW 6 Terrace, residence,erect, $80,600.

Westgate Marketplace,205 S MacArthur Blvd.,business, remodel,$80,000.

Ideal Homes of NormanLP, 2720 NW 186, resi-dence, erect, $79,000.


Home Creations, 12700Nittany Drive, residence,erect, $78,200.



Carriage Homes, 14501Coles Road, residence,add-on, $75,000.

Neighborhood HousingServices/Oklahoma CityInc., 1212 SW 17, residence,erect, $75,000.




Ideal Homes of NormanLP, 2520 FountaingrassRoad, residence, erect,$72,000.

Ideal Homes of NormanLP, 1108 SW 155, residence,erect, $72,000.

E.V. Cox Construction,5100 W Reno Ave., ware-house, add-on, $72,000.

Bruce Mulford, 10916Maple Grove , residence,remodel, $60,000.

Crown ConstructionLLC, 4713 Seabrook Court,residence, add-on,$60,000.

No name provided, 225NE 97, medical clinic-of-fice, remodel, $60,000.

Blackmon MooringConstruction LLC, 2817NW 45, residence, fire res-toration, $52,000.

Allenton Homes & De-velopment LLC, 11732Burning Oaks Road, acces-sory, erect, $40,000.

No name provided,12100 SW 53, accessory,erect, $40,000.

Michael Martin, 11900SW 15 Terrace, manufac-tured home, move-on-mobile home park,

$35,500.Stuart D. Howard, 109

SW 98, residence, add-on,$35,000.

Malcolm Hall Proper-ties, 8031 N Classen Blvd.,cleaners-laundry, add-on,$30,000.

Westgate Marketplace,203 S MacArthur Blvd., re-tail sales, remodel,$30,000.

No name provided, 816Glenlake Drive, residence,add-on, $30,000.

Standlee Homes & Ren-ovations, 16012 Big CypressDrive, residence, add-on,$25,000.

Champion Window Co.,4701 SE 81, residence, add-on, $21,718.

Oscar J. Boldt Construc-tion, 101 W Hefner Road,office-warehouse, remod-el, $20,000.

Champion Window Co.,10913 Fountain Blvd., resi-dence, add-on, $19,500.

Curtis Smith, 10712Green Valley Road, storage,erect, $15,000.

Mike Carson, 7105 WHefner Road, office, re-model, $15,000.

Silvercliffe Construc-tion, 2600 NE 63, move-on, move-on, $15,000.

Vernon Smith, 13401Spruce Valley Drive, stor-age, erect, $10,000.

Antonio Otero, 1718 NE11, accessory, erect, $9,300.

Lopez Construction,2706 S Shartel Ave.,church, add-on, $8,000.

Oz Saferooms, 4221Mel-low Hill Drive, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$7,999.

Larry Todd, 2504 SW 81,install-storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter,$5,400.

4d Construction, 200 SOklahoma Ave., residence,remodel, $5,000.

Site Excel, 4420 SW 3,equipment, move-on,$5,000.

Robert Wienecke, 14601Fossil Creek Lane, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $4,900.

Timmy Vu, 1325 SW 123,storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $4,895.

No name provided, 14012Saw Mill Road, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$4,745.

Steve Hebblethwaite,2116 Pinnacle Point, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $4,500.

No name provided, 2729Blue Quail Pass, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $4,500.

Kay Crews, 2621 NW 151,storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $4,495.

Maria Lopez, 4301 NW49, storm shelter, install-

storm shelter, $4,295.No name provided, 2413

SW 113 Terrace, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$4,200.

Andrew Tuls, 7617 NW134, storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $4,000.

Dale R. Hunnington,13248 SW 10, storm shelter,install-storm shelter,$4,000.

Jason Shirazi, 15710Wood Creek Lane, stormshelter, install, $4,000.

William W. Perry, 1133NW 176, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter,$4,000.

A-Fox Electric, 300Johnny Bench Drive, of-fice, remodel, $4,000.

James Montemayor,10501 Bishops Gate, stor-age, install-storm shelter,$3,995.

Joyce Baxter, 625 SW 159Terrace, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter, $3,995.

Marty Summers, 3617SW 124, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter, $3,995.

No name provided, 6725NW 133, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter, $3,950.

Nick and Amanda Hil-ton, 16517 Moorgate Lane,storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $3,925.

No name provided, 5901NW 81, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter, $3,925.

Loren L. Berridge, 16113Hemlock Drive, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $3,920.

James Collins, 14704Carlingford Way, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $3,800.

John Cunningham, 8901NW 71, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter,$3,800.

Brady Buchan, 18517Chestnut Oak Drive, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $3,795.

Monty Dolph, 16617Kingsley Road, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$3,795.

Del Laidley, 12828 NW 5,storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $3,500.

Diane Locke, 8716 PikesPeak Road, storm shelter,install-storm shelter,$3,500.

Kristi Mahaffey, 2316NW 158, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter,$3,500.

No name provided, 2805N Meridian Court, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $3,500.

Matt Jeffcoat, 19404Thornhill Blvd., stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $3,400.

Othello Dotson, 6408

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Refreshing Mediterra-nean influences inspire thecontemporary SpanishGrandeza. Stucco archesand columns combinewith round-arched win-dows and a tile roof to givethe plan a sunny ambiancethat is equally evocative ofthe American Southwest.

This home is almost asnaturally bright inside asout. At center is a high-ceiling, hexagonal greatroom where arched win-dows fill most of three rearwalls.

The patio that wrapsacross the entire back hasfour access points, so it’seasy to move outdoorswhen sunny weatherbeckons. When theweather turns chilly, thewarmth of the pellet stovewill be welcome.

A spacious kitchen fillsmost of one hexagonalsegment. Counters on foursides offer plenty of roomfor food prep, and a long,raised eating bar rims thepeninsular counter nearestthe dining area. A pantrynestles into an alcove cre-ated by the upper flight ofa centrally located stair-way.

Upstairs, French doubledoors in the vaulted hexa-gonal recreation roomopen onto a rear balcony.On the opposite side of theroom, a V-shaped railingallows people to safelyoverlook the entry. Withwindows on five sides, thisbright and lofty room hasits own bathroom andmakes a great place forrainy day play. It could beoutfitted as a study, homeoffice, guest room, art stu-dio or whatever suits.

The Grandeza’s luxuri-ous owners’ suite fills the

right wing. Its skylit bath-room has a dual vanity, spatub, linen closet, showerand private toilet. Thewalk-in closet is quitelarge.

Two more bedroomsshare a bathroom in theleft wing, close to the largeutility room that links thehouse and garage.

A review plan of the Grandeza, includingfloor plans, elevations, section andartist’s conception, can be purchased for$25 by phone, mail or online. Add $5 forshipping and handling. AssociatedDesigns, 1100 Jacobs Drive, Eugene, OR,97402. www.associateddesigns.com.(800) 634-0123.

HOUSE PLAN

Grandeza has Mediterranean flavor

The Listing of the Weekis a large two-story brickhouse in Nichols Hills.

The 4,851-square-foothouse at 1415 CanterburyPlace has five bedrooms, 5½ baths, four livingrooms, two dining areasand an attached three-cargarage. The family roomand study have fireplacesand built-in bookcases.The kitchen has a breakfastbar, commercial Therma-dor appliances, Monticellocabinets and a butler’spantry with icemaker. Themaster bedroom has a his-and-hers bath and walk-incloset. Three secondary

bedrooms have full bathsand walk-in closets. Thehome has imported Brazi-lian walnut floors, a lappool, fire pit and coveredpatio with grill and wetbar. The home has a secu-rity system and under-ground sprinkler system.

The home, built in 2007,is listed for $1.27 millionwith Laura Terlip of TheCovington Co. For moreinformation, call 834-0805.

Nominations for Listing of the Weekare welcome. Send information onsingle-family homes to The Oklahoman,Richard Mize, P.O. Box 25125, OklahomaCity, OK 73125. Nominations may befaxed to 475-3996.

Large two-storybrick house inNichols Hills

The Listing of the Week is at 1415 Canterbury Place inNichols Hills. The house has five bedrooms, 5 1/2baths, four living rooms, two dining areas and anattached three-car garage. PHOTO PROVIDED

LISTING OF THE WEEK


ST. LOUIS — To most peo-ple, a tornado means de-struction. To Martin Goe-bel, it means potential.

Last spring, after torna-does cut through the St.Louis area, Goebel perusedthe aftermath, looking forfelled hardwood trees toturn into coffee tables,chairs and bed frames.Eventually those storm-torn trees helped launch acompany: Goebel & Co.Furniture.

Goebel, 30, had recentlyreturned to St. Louis afterfinishing his master’s de-gree at the Rhode IslandSchool of Design when thetwisters buzzed through,leaving their offerings.

With a degree from aprestigious, demandingprogram, and years of fur-niture design under hisbelt, Goebel had beenlooking for a job. He wasoffered one — running op-erations at Dakota Jack-son, one of the country’spre-eminent high-designfurniture companies — buthe turned down the mon-ey, the title and New YorkCity, and came home to St.Louis instead.

“I went to the guy al-most in tears and said: Ican’t do this,” Goebel re-members. “My teacherssaid I’d be crazy not to doit. But I left New York, andit was just a liberating feel-ing.”

Goebel had a plan,though, that had beenbrewing for a few years andbecame more fully formed

in graduate school. Hisconcept was, and is, to takewood and transform it —partly by hand and partlyby sophisticated digitizedmachinery — into afford-able pieces of furniturethat last.

“We do batch produc-tion of residential furni-ture that we consider ba-sics,” Goebel said, stand-ing in his production spacein south St. Louis. “We’rejust using the technologyof the day to producethings at a better price.”

Goebel Furniture, inother words, uses a hybridapproach, one unique inthe industry. The wood isrough-cut in Goebel’s pro-duction space, then sentout to other companies tobe precision cut, usingcomputer models andcomputer-controlled rou-ters. Then the pieces comeback to Goebel’s studiowhere they are assembledand hand-finished. Theresult is a handcraftedpiece made of native hard-wood that’s priced morealong the lines of a ma-chine-made piece made ofcomposite or lesser wood.

“He’s using technologywhere it makes sense andmaking it handworkedwhere he can,” explainedCarl Safe, a longtime pro-fessor of furniture designat Washington University,who recently visited Goe-bel’s production space.“These are handmadepieces in many respects.”

Safe, who designs andbuilds furniture himself,called Goebel’s startup a“heroic effort.”

“This is a difficult mar-ket to break into,” he said.“But I think he has a run-ning start at this.”

Goebel believes he’s inthe right place at the righttime.

St. Louis is perfectly po-sitioned in the center ofthe country to deliverpieces elsewhere. Thelower cost of doing busi-ness, too, enables Goebelto spend more on materialthan rent. But, most im-portantly, St. Louis is sur-rounded by an abundanceof trees — walnut, Siberianelm, sycamore — well suit-ed for the demands of fur-niture.

“All of these species ofhardwood grow in our ownbackyard,” Goebel said.“St. Louis is really uniquewhen it comes to geo-graphical location and re-sources.”

Goebel also uses localproducers to mill his piec-es, paying them to do thework on machines that hisfledgling company couldnot afford.

“He wanted to tap intoour technology,” said BrianBerger of Kirkwood Stairand Millwork. “He doesthe design work and thesolid modeling, then sendsus the (computer) file, andwe figure out a way to runit on our equipment. Hepicks out the wood, roughsit, and we mill it for him.”

“So much of our furni-ture is coming from over-seas,” Berger added. “It’sgreat to see someone mak-ing furniture locally.”

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Storm-torn trees help launch companyBY GEORGINA GUSTINSt. Louis Post-Dispatch

Nick Leidenfrost places wood on a drying rack at Goebel & Co. Furniture in St.Louis, Mo. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE PHOTO

Noah Alexander works on a piece at Goebel & Co. Furniture in St. Louis, Mo.MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE PHOTO

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Charlotte and Ryan Wil-shire, 3008 SW 136, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $3,000.

David Alan Shaw, 19200Green Springs Drive, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $3,000.

Jayson Kennedy, 9810Olde Tuscany Road, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $3,000.

Linette Tresher, 16904Halbrooke Circle, stormshelter, install, $3,000.

Lynn Brooks, 16801 Hal-brooke Road, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,

$3,000.Taylor Wheeler, 16324

Snowy Owl Drive, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $3,000.

Ground Zero, 7908 NW82, storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $3,000.

No name provided, 2116Hackberry Creek Ave.,storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $3,000.

No name provided,8200 NE 140, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$3,000.

April Hubbel, 16313Stoneview Drive, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $2,995.

Billy Gleaves, 8001 Hill-crest Drive, storm shelter,install-storm shelter,$2,995.

Chris Wadsworth, 8505SW 46 Place, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$2,995.

Garry George, 4104 NE142 Court, install-stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $2,995.

G.L. Cobb Construc-tion, 12212 Wileman Way,storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $2,995.

Glenn Linenberger,3020 SW 138, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$2,995.

James Hunter, 3108 Roll-ing Stone Road, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $2,995.

Kelvin and KeashaHobbs, 15804 CanteraCreek Drive, storm shelter,install-storm shelter,$2,995.

Mary Nguyen, 12515 BreeLane, residence, install-storm shelter, $2,995.

Misty Eccard, 13121NW 1,storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $2,995.

Paul W. Means, 10901SW 30 Terrace, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $2,995.

Robert Cowan, 10 SW97, storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $2,995.

Robert Miller, 11505Kingsgate Drive, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $2,995.

Thomas Tracey, 10104 SDrexel Ave., storm shelter,install-storm shelter,$2,995.

Houston Davis, 1704NW 183, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter,$2,900.

William Marwil, 6701NW 118, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter,$2,900.

George Kiser, 11632Lochwood Drive, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $2,870.

Richard Haggard, 812

NW 140, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter, $2,825.

Milton Ware, 8501 NW74, storm shelter, install-storm shelter, $2,800.

Ann Owens, 1817 NW 194Circle, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter, $2,795.

Randy Chandler, 13108Wisteria Way, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$2,795.

Joseph D. Kays, 13305Baldwin Drive, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$2,700.

Josephin Williams, 8101Timothy Lane, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$2,680.

Ron’s Gutters of OK,8433 Stonewood Drive, ca-nopy-carport, add-on,$2,600.

Bill and Laurie Compau,16801 SE 113, storm shelter,install-storm shelter,$2,570.

Steve Rayburn, 12901Tracy Drive, storm shelter,install-storm shelter,$2,570.

No name provided, 4101S Czech Hall Road, stormshelter, install-storm shel-ter, $2,570.

Larry Watters, 15409 El-izabeth Drive, storm shel-ter, install-storm shelter,$2,500.

Robert Dean Owens,7212 S Drexel Ave., resi-dence, remodel, $2,500.

Audie Gorgas Jr., 21300SE 103, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter, $2,470.

James Cody Bennett,11312 Fiddlesticks Lane, res-idence, install-storm shel-ter, $2,200.

Randy Johnson, 4505SW 121, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter,$2,200.

James B. and Cheryl F.Thompson, 9021 NW 93Circle, storm shelter, in-stall-storm shelter,$2,000.

Mario Cardenas, 1408SW 31, canopy-carport,erect, $1,500.

Mike Barlow, 323 KuhlTerrace, manufacturedhome, move-on-mobilehome park, $1,500.

DemolitionsRay’s Trucking, 519 N

Lindsay Ave., residence.Ray’s Trucking, 519 N

Lindsay Ave., garage.Kendall Concrete, 935

NE 18, accessory.Kendall Concrete, 2224

NW 11, accessory.Shelia Allen, 1616 NW

29, accessory.Ray’s Trucking, 1244 SW

25, retail.Total Demolition Ser-

vices, 2221 N Kelham Ave.,residential.

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