Bethany Erickson

Bethany Erickson lives in a 1961 Fox and Jacobs home with her husband, a second-grader, and Conrad Bain the dog. If she won the lottery, she'd by an E. Faye Jones home.
She's taken home a few awards for her writing, including a Gold award for Best Series at the 2018 National Association of Real Estate Editors journalism awards, a 2018 Hugh Aynesworth Award for Editorial Opinion from the Dallas Press Club, and a 2019 award from NAREE for a piece linking Medicaid expansion with housing insecurity.
She is a member of the Online News Association, the Education Writers Association, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and the Society of Professional Journalists.
She doesn't like lima beans or the word moist.

July Fourth Picks: Sunrise Bay Home Offers Amenities and Lakeside Living

By Bethany Erickson / July 4, 2018 /

By next Independence Day, you could be grilling at your lakeside home, hopping in your boat on Lake Lewisville with prime seats for fireworks, and spending time cooling off in your pool in between — and we have just the house. This lakefront estate home is in the Sunset Bay community in Little Elm, a…

July Fourth Picks: University Park Tudor Quick Walk to Park Cities Parade Route

By Bethany Erickson / July 4, 2018 /

Imagine being able to host friends and family at a July fourth cookout and pool party, with a brief break for a quick walk to the popular and traditional Park Cities Fourth of July parade — because we just found the perfect house for just that very thing.

Dinomite Marketing Sells Granbury Home in Five Days

By Bethany Erickson / July 3, 2018 /

Realtor Casey Lewis with Cearnal Realtors has been waiting for a good while to deploy his dinomite marketing strategy — and he finally did in Granbury last week. In fact, when he saur this two-bedroom, one-bath lake house, he also knew that the owners wouldn’t think it was a pterrible idea. Yes, you can see…

Oak Lawn Neighborhood Peace Pierced by Barrage of Early Morning Gunfire

By Bethany Erickson / July 1, 2018 /

Sharmin Ashtaputre’s family has never really felt unsafe in their Oak Lawn Heights neighborhood in the four years they’ve lived there. But early Sunday morning, that sense of safety was shattered as bullets rained down in their daughter’s nursery. “At 5:30 a.m. today, we were woken up by what sounded like fireworks,” Ashtaputre said. “Well,…

On SecondShelters.com: Historical Shelter On the Way To a Lake? Try Shelbyville, Texas.

By Bethany Erickson / July 1, 2018 /

For $350,000 and some elbow grease, someone is going to snag this bed-and-breakfast ready historical shelter on the way to Toledo Bend Lake in Shelbyville, Texas. It’s just a matter of when, and who, not if. The Bickham House, built in the 1880s, is located at 794 FM 2694 and is a 4,232 square foot farmhouse…