Debbie Durkee, ALC CRS

I am Debbie Durkee, REALTOR, ALC, CRS. Branch Broker at National Land Realty in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I have a broker's license in Oklahoma and in Kansas. In addition to farms and ranches, I market luxury country estates and smaller rural homes and properties to people who don't want to see their neighbors. I specialize in recreational land, hobby farms and horse properties for equestrians, armchair riders, bird watchers, and other naturalists. I sell recreational properties and ranches within a two or three-hour radius of Tulsa.

My passion for country property goes back to my childhood. I grew up in rural dairy country in New York State where I rode field hunters and learned to love riding in the woods. I was a member of the Goldens Bridge Hounds Pony Club in North Salem, New York.

I moved to Oklahoma in 1984 and became familiar with riding in a ring, showing a bit on the hunter-jumper circuit, and doing some dressage competition. In 1989 we bought our 60-acre farm in Claremore and I was able to ride on my own place.

In Claremore I took classes in horse management at Rogers State College. At the school's Horse Center I volunteered in the Bit by Bit Therapeutic Riding program. I also took courses in the Golf Course and Landscape Management program at Rogers State College, learning to identify and manage trees, shrubs, grasses, and weeds.

Later I took classes at the High Plains Technology Center in Woodward to learn about oil & gas drilling and production. I have a rig pass and feel somewhat qualified and comfortable when walking around on an oil lease as well as a farm. I have also learned how to do landman work, which brings together my many years of professional experience as a law librarian, a corporate records manager, and later as a legal assistant. I can advise clients appropriately regarding which professionals to consult when their land is actually or potentially involved in oil & gas production.

From 1989 to 1991 I worked as an executive secretary for Henson-Williams Realty, commercial real estate developers. I acquired my real estate sales license in 1994 and worked as a buyers' agent for Gordona Duca Realtors for six months before going back to graduate school. In 2005 I came back into real estate full time and placed my license with Coldwell Banker / RaderGroup, Realtors. I earned my Broker's license in 2009 and continued to work at Coldwell Banker. In 2019 I switched my license to RE/MAX T-town. Then in October 2021 I became the managing broker of the Tulsa office for National Land Realty.

My unique blend of life experience, education, and passion come together to make me qualified to work with buyers who are looking for pretty land and sellers who own rural, suburban, even urban horse properties in Northeast Oklahoma.

Did I mention I have two Masters Degrees? While not related to real estate, my Masters in Library Science and my Masters in Divinity have helped me with real estate. As an ex-librarian I am persnickety and very attentive to detail. My training as a minister and my experience in teaching in the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program have also helped me develop my ability to observe and to negotiate.

Needless to say, I have all kinds of credentials related to real estate.

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Here is what our website at National Land Realty says about me... just in case you actually have gotten this far and want to know more:

Debbie Durkee, ALC, CRS, joined National Land Realty in October 2021. She is a licensed real estate broker in Oklahoma and in Kansas.

First licensed in 1994 and a full-time REALTOR since 2005, Debbie has the knowledge, experience, and tools to help you with your real estate needs, whether you are buying or selling a ranch, hunting land, or a building lot in a suburban subdivision. Transitional land in the path of development, horse properties, and country estates are Debbie's specialty.

In addition to selling teardowns and houses in midtown Tulsa and its surrounding communities, Debbie has extensive experience working with lenders on behalf of financially challenged homeowners doing short sales.

As an Independent Landman, Debbie has been a member of the AAPL (American Association of Professional Landmen) since 2006. She is passionate about re-uniting severed mineral rights with the surface rights (i.e., "putting the cake back under the icing").

Call or text Debbie today at 918-416-7609.

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MORE ABOUT DEBBIE DURKEE, ALC, CRS

Debbie has received many real estate designations and certifications, including:

•Accredited Land Consultant (ALC) and member of the REALTORS Land Institute

•Certified Residential Specialist (CRS) and member of the Residential Real Estate Council. Awarded “CRS of the Year” in Oklahoma for 2014.

•Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE)

•Certified Probate Real Estate Specialist (CPRES)

•Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES)

•Certified New Home Specialist (CNHS)

•Certified Home Marketing Specialist (CHMS)

•Accredited Buyers Representative (ABR) and member of the Real Estate Buyer Agency Council (REBAC)

•Green (the National Association of REALTORS Green designation)

•Graduate REALTOR Institute (GRI)

•Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource Certification (SFR)

•Certified Distressed Property Expert (CDPE)

•e-PRO (National Association of REALTORS internet specialist designation)

•At Home With Diversity (AHWD)

•Independent Landman American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL) since 2006.

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Prior to joining the real estate industry Debbie:

•directed religious education and was a youth minister at St. Anne Catholic Church, in Broken Arrow, OK

•taught French at Madison Middle School in Bartlesville, OK

•was an immigration paralegal at R. Mark Solano, PLLC

•assisted French-speaking travel agents at the Subscriber Hardware Help Desk at Sabre, in Tulsa, OK

•worked as an Executive Secretary at Henson-Williams Realty (a commercial real estate developer)

•headed up the Hardesty South Regional Library in Tulsa, OK

•was a Certified Records Manager (CRM) and supervisor of the libraries and records in the law department at Gulf Oil Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA.

•was an Acquisitions Librarian at Albany Law School in Albany, NY

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For more about Debbie’s education and career, see her profile on LinkedIn.

Debbie is married to John and together they live in the Brookside neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In her spare time, she enjoys riding her bike to the nearby Gathering Place, reading, cooking, baking, gardening, singing, and teaching in the Level III Catechesis of the Good Shepherd atrium at her church. She also volunteers at Ascension St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, helping the chaplains by visiting patients to provide pastoral care as needed and to sit with imminently dying patients who have no family or friends. She volunteers as an urban forester at Up With Trees, helping to identify and assess trees along highways in downtown and midtown Tulsa and helping to take care of Tulsa's canopy.

Debbie lived many years on a farm in Claremore, OK where she rode her horses and enjoyed a country lifestyle within commuting distance of Tulsa, OK.

As a kid, Debbie grew up in Brewster, NY, near New York City, where Debbie's father exported oilfield equipment for his Tulsa clients. In Brewster, Debbie was privileged to ride field hunters at Duhallow Stable and to hunt with Goldens Bridge Hounds. When she moved to Tulsa in 1984 she did hunter-jumper at Landmark Farm in Bixby and dressage at Woodridge Farm in Claremore. Now Debbie is an armchair rider and a bird watcher.