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Helping Sellers Put the Cake Back under Their Icing

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Managing Real Estate Broker with National Land Realty 120358

Is anyone out there in Active Rain land offering landman services to their sellers to help them acquire the mineral rights under their land? 

I have the expertise to do this and I think it would be even more valuable than home staging and other ancillary services that we offer to get the homes sold.

It seems to me that in an era when landmen are doing "roof-top leasing" to get homeowners in subdivisions to lease out their minerals, we really owe it to our homeowners to help them to get those minerals back.

It is our generation that should be doing this.  The longer we wait to put the cake back under the icing, the harder it will be to identify the heirs of landowners who retained the mineral rights many years ago. 

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Randall Schrader
Competitive Insurance of Dundee - Dundee, FL

Are you saying that people buy houses short of the full bundle of rights?  In Florida we wouldn't have this issue.

Sep 14, 2008 03:06 AM
Debbie Durkee
National Land Realty - Tulsa, OK
ALC, CRS -- Land & Country Estates near Tulsa

That's exactly right.  In Oklahoma land was allotted in fee simple and then when people thought there might be oil or gas under their properties ,they "retained the mineral rights" while selling off the surface.  So when you buy a house here you may own everything from the surface to he center of the earth or you may only own "from the grass roots up."

What is worse, most homeowners are totally unaware of this concept. 

Sep 14, 2008 05:15 AM
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AuthorBio: Debbie Solano has earned two Masters degrees: 1) an MLS (Masters in Library Science) from SUNY at Albany, School of Library and Information Science, 1978 and 2) an M.Div (Masters in Divinity) from Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology, 1997. Debbie earned her Oklahoma Real Estate license in 1994 and has been a REALTOR full time since 2005. She is a member of the Greater Tulsa Board of REALTORS®(GTAR) and a member of the Northeast Oklahoma Board of REALTORS® (Grand Lake), the Oklahoma Association of REALTORS® (OAR), and the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). She is also an active member of the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL) and the REALTORS® Land Institute (RLI). Her professional real estate designations include: CRS, ABR, AHWD, CHMS, e-PRO, GRI, REOS, and SRES. She currently serves as the Membership Chairperson for the Oklahoma Chapter of the Council of Residential Specialists. Debbie is a Volunteer Visitor in the Pastoral Care Department at St. John Medical Center in midtown Tulsa. She is also a member of the choir at the Church of St. Mary in Brookside.

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