Edmond is outside my licence — here is the useful part

What a Florida owner does not expect

• Licensing in this industry is granted state by state, not federally. A Florida licence carries no authority in Oklahoma, and a Oklahoma licence carries none in Florida — which is why an introduction, rather than representation, is the only honest offer on this page.
• Leaving Florida means picking up a state income tax in Oklahoma. Model it against the housing number before you settle on a price range, and take the actual arithmetic to a tax adviser rather than to any real estate agent, including me.
• Closings in Oklahoma generally run through a title or escrow company rather than requiring an attorney as a matter of course — structurally closer to what you are used to in Florida than not.
• Neither the homestead exemption nor the Save Our Homes cap travels with you out of Florida. Oklahoma sets its own assessment rules, its own exemptions and its own limit on how fast a bill can rise — confirm the specifics with the local taxing authority rather than assuming a Florida analogue exists.

How the introduction gets made

The part most sites leave out

One thing to check before you let me introduce anyone. If your move is being paid for by an employer, or you are using a benefit programme attached to your work or your service, read that programme’s terms first. Some of them require you to register with them before you speak to any agent and will not pay out if you have already committed to someone. That is not a rule I control and it is not a reason to avoid a referral — it is a reason to make one telephone call in the right order.

What I would ask if I were you

• Who actually answers the phone — you, or someone on your team? Ask early; the answer changes the whole relationship.
• Which documents will you ask me to sign at the very start, what does each one commit me to, and how long does it run? Ask for them by email so you can read them somewhere other than at a kitchen table.
• What is the insurance picture on the kind of property I am looking at, and who should I be calling for a real quote?
• What does your written agreement say about the length of the term and how I end it if this is not working?

Where I stop, on purpose

I will not send your details to several agents at once to see which one bites. One introduction, to one named brokerage, after a conversation with the person at the other end. If it turns out to be the wrong fit I would rather go back and make a second introduction than have set four strangers racing each other with your telephone number.

What I can do directly, without an introduction

Sometimes the Florida property is not the one you live in. A second home, an inherited house, a unit that has been let for years — each of those sells differently and each carries paperwork that has to be in order before it can go on the market at all. If one of them is attached to your move to Edmond, that part sits squarely inside my licence, and it is worth starting early, because the documents take longer than the marketing does.

Other cities in Oklahoma

• Muskogee
• Mustang
• Midwest City
• Broken Arrow
• Oklahoma City
• Bartlesville
• Eno
• Moore
• All of Oklahoma