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I will pay anyone $500 for referring someone to me that purchases my house.

Great family neighborhood with neighborhood pool/park just around the corner.

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Koi Pond in back yard, with assorted very very large koi.


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Great looking house.  It would be something I was very interested in (if my student loans were paid off and I had the cash).   Well, also, personally, I wouldn't want to leave my little bubble where I can walk everywhere.   But as far as what it offers it seems well rounded (fireplace, space, 2 stall garage, nice lot, hardwoods . . .).

To save others the trouble:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ei=gbm3SZfYLZfoMJLYmNoK&resnum=1&q=8504%20S.%20pittsburg%2C%20Tulsa&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl


Oh, and I know your super secret identity now. ;)   (not really, I haven't bothered to look it up)


[edit]P.S.  I had a pond with a stream in my backyard at one point.  Then I dog dogs.  Then the dogs figured out the stream was cool running water and laid in it.  Which caused it to overflow.  Which pumped 60% out all the water from the pond.  Which made the fish to jump around for O2.  Which made the dogs chase the fish.  Which destroyed the pond plants.  Which made it a swamp.  Which made my girl dog want to pretend she was a hippo.  Which means I no longer have a koi pond.  /the end   [edit]

Wow, looking at Google Street view, and knowing when those photos were taken, looks like your trees really suffered during the big ice storm...glad you got through that ok.

Yeah Street View does me no justice.  Our neighborhood has (had) huge trees, and that storm was really something to watch and hear.  Sounded like glaciers calving.

 

Same here.  I was lucky, I had two dying/dead White Ash trees that both were upwards of 60 feet tall in my front yard; I was having them removed and they were nearly finished with that when the ice storm got underway.  My next door neighbor had a pecan tree which survived, but also had a 60 foot Elm; it sounded like a war zone that first morning.  No fewer than 15 large branches snapped off that tree.  Good thing none of it was in my property line.  I had that taken care of earlier that year.

We had plenty of firewood for use this year.

So you had to kiss your Ash goodbye?

The back yard is huge and has a greenbelt and river beyond the fence (we own the property all the way to the center of the river, so I guess I could make the back yard twice as big with a lot of work) several elm and assorted trees were hit hard by the ice and one weekened just enough to put a limb through the roof the following week when it fell.  That bought us a brand new roof. ;D

Did I mention BRAND NEW ROOF.

Ok, We are very motivated.  We have another house we want to buy.

We've reduced the price to $164,500.

Nothing like some great smoking wood Hoss.  Please tell me you scarfed up some of the pecan.  My neighbor lost 1/2 a plum tree in the ice storm- that all wound up in my smoker, it was a sad day when it ran out.  Chicken or ribs smoked with plum wood is like crack to me.

Gas, I lived a few blocks from your house at 85th & Toledo in my teen years.  At the time we moved in Pittsburg still dead-ended right at about your house or maybe there were a few to the south if it.  It's a great neighborhood, but a bit far south for my tastes these days.

I have a large  Methley plum in the back yard  Produces hundreds of plumbs every year.  If you buy my house you can cut it down and smoke a chicken.

I also have 2 Gala Apple trees if you like to smoke with apple wood (my favorite).

Sorry dude, already bought something in Lortondale this week.  I have some sort of fruit-looking tree in a corner of the backyard, but not sure what it is.

The pecan that we did have was growing wild on the corner of the fenceline; AEP took that one day and took ALL the wood with them.  I wasn't very happy, but it was their removal.

I haven't done a whole lot of smoking of meats, but I told myself last year that I would buy a smoker this year and give it a whirl.  I have a cousin whose inlaws have a house up on Grand with an inground smoker that I had some turkey out of several years back.  The meat fell off the turkey essentially.  Great stuff.

Hoss, call over at Hasty Bake and see about attending a 3 Guys class.  Not sure what the cost is now.  They have classes from BBQ 101(for you and I) to advanced BBQ 106 (for competition teams).

Hasty bake May 21st 6:00pm BBQ 101 Class taught by 3 Guys Smokin' (winners of over 200 national and regional BBQ awards).  Even if you don't BBQ, the guys are hilarious and the food is outstanding.

The class (taught by the 3 stooges of BBQ):
- Everything about woods, coal, smokers, and equipment
- Meat selection (i.e. how to tell a right sided brisket from a left sided, yes it makes a big difference)
- Several top ten 3 Guys KCBS Royal award winning recipes to take home
- Dinner and beer provided

They also teach over at the Savory Chef, but I'm not sure of any dates.

I didn't realize 3 Guys do a class, that would be an idea if you want to cut the learning curve.  I've learned everything I know about it from trial and error and asking questions of people whose BBQ I liked, there's an art to doing really good que.  after 20 some years, I think my BBQ skills are still evolving.  Once you find a smoker that works for you, stick with it.  Where I work, they have built some really high-end exotic smokers for friends and family, but to this point I've resisted as I have the one I use dialed in quite well.

The guys would kill me for saying this, but Cookshack Makes one of the best effortless, foolproof smokers I have ever used.  Insert your favorite meat, and wood, set it and forget it.

Looks like a small refrigerator, and produces very little wasted smoke, so it won't upset your neighbors.  A small cookshack has the cooking area of most large smokers.

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Gaspar, I have a couple questions for ya...

What are the dimensions of your great room?

Two fireplaces and no chimney?

I would say that the great room is about 25' x 25', but I'd have to take a tape measure to it to make sure.
2 fireplaces and one chimney (with two stacks).  We use the living room fireplace to burn wood in the winter, puts out quite a bit of heat.  In the bedroom I have gas logs in the fireplace because they are easier to deal with than hauling wood back to the bedroom.

Just measured it.  23.5' x 18'.

SOLD!

Thanks for everyone's help and advice. 

Immediately after posting this thread, we got a barrage of calls from realtors that participate, and monitor the forum.  We also got calls from people who heard from a friend of a friend of a friend of some guy who's wife's girlfriend's workout buddy's husband saw it on the forum.

Quite a web we have here.

 

Yeah, well that person that bought your house is my daughter's boyfriend's, uncle's, brother's, grandfather's sister-in-law's son's son. 

So when do I get my $500?

Congrats, I know that's a relief to you.

Since we collectively helped sell the home, per your admission, are you buying the beer and appetizers at the next Tulsa Now Happy Hour at Joe Mammas? 

And congrats on the sale.  Now lets talk about that smoker.  8)

The house looks nice, but those huge trees around the home is not for me, with a good ice storm or high winds who knows that direction they will fall.

House sold a while back . . .

But, you aren't one of those people that move in and instantly cut down mature well trimmed trees are you?

Why, oh dear god, why?

Ahem... not that you would ever suggest that.

Those Silver Maples are beautiful and we enjoyed them, but I wouldn't consider them trees.  I like to think of them as giant evil demons plotting our destruction. They dropped enough lumber to cut and make a half rick of firewood every year.  Fibrous roots make it hard to dig. 

Great shade though.  ;D

I said "mature well trimmed trees" not sickly, poorly trimmed, soft maples that have shed half their limbs and need to die.  And I didn't advocate removing the River Birch, just the portion that has actually grown over your house.

I ♥ trees.  Just not ugly ones.