Year: 2024

We’re in Love With The Kessler Park Tudor That Robert Kucharski Just Listed

By Joanna England / January 24, 2024 /

There has been no other time in my life that I wished so hard that I was in the market for a home than right now. I’m one of those people who has way too much equity and a crazy low rate that buying a home right now would not be the best idea, but…

Bottles, Bottles Everywhere And Not a Drop to Drink in This Arizona Bottle House

By Mimi Perez / January 24, 2024 /

To be perfectly honest, the first time I looked at the photos of the house featured in this week’s column, I had to do a double-take. I thought I was looking at a home covered in snakeskin. I know, it makes zero sense but my brain tends to slow down when it is so freaking…

How To Use a Home Inspection Report: Part 2

By Brenda Masse / January 24, 2024 /

Welcome to our second installment of How To Use a Home Inspection Report! Last week, we focused on the five major systems of the house. This week, we’re moving on to some of the details and the more in-depth areas to look at how you can use a home inspection report to gain knowledge about…

HOPE Report Suggests Lack of ‘Deeply Affordable’ Housing is Driving People Into Homelessness 

By April Towery / January 24, 2024 /

As temperatures dipped below freezing on the evening of Jan. 18, a panel of Dallas City Council members discussed the Homelessness, Organizations, Policies, and Encampments report — the HOPE report, for short — calling for a solution to the city’s unsheltered homelessness crisis.  District 2 Councilman Jesse Moreno, who chairs the Housing and Homelessness Solutions…

New Construction in Kessler Park Sparks Debate Over Conservation District Guidelines

By April Towery / January 23, 2024 /

Kevin Rachel and his wife moved to Kessler Park in 2020 because they liked the character of the North Oak Cliff neighborhood with its diverse historical architecture, hilly topography, and lush landscape.  About a year after the Rachels found their dream home on Canyon Creek within the Kessler Park Conservation District, construction began nearby on…