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.

Early Voting for Dallas ISD District 9 Runoff Election Ends Tomorrow

By Bethany Erickson / June 11, 2018 /

Only 69 votes separated Justin Henry from Dallas ISD incumbent District 9 trustee Bernadette Nutall in the regular called election on May 6. But Henry failed to get the necessary 50 percent of the vote (although he came close at 47 percent), so the two have been forced to hit the campaign trail again for…

On SecondShelters.com: Anne Rice’s Former St. Charles Street NOLA Pad Up for Sale – Again

By Bethany Erickson / June 10, 2018 /

Fans of southern gothic novelist Anne Rice know that New Orleans is prime territory if you’re looking for settings from some of her most famous books. But one of her abodes (she’s had a few) in New Orleans is now up for sale, again. Located at 3711 St. Charles in Uptown New Orleans, the mansion…

On SecondShelters.com: Standalone Condo Is Perfect for Longhorn Fans – and Is Less Than $200K

By Bethany Erickson / June 8, 2018 /

Sometimes we find great properties, and sometimes they are dropped in our laps — and this standalone condo in the planned community of Mueller is a latter instance. Never heard of Mueller? Located about 11 miles from the Austin city center, the community is the best of both worlds — city services without the city…

Whitley Place Custom Home Provides Family Friendly Luxury in Prosper

By Bethany Erickson / June 7, 2018 /

If you’re looking for a custom luxury home, on a one-of-a-kind lot, but also want a neighborhood that is family friendly, you can’t get much more perfect than homes in Whitley Place in Prosper, trust us. Whitley Place offers some of the best amenities — a community pool, creek, lake pavilion, walking trails, and even…

Normal On the Outside, Curious Design Choices On the Inside

By Bethany Erickson / June 6, 2018 /

Before we delve into today’s hot mess of choices that we’ve deemed a true Wednesday WTF, I’d like to address a frequent pearl-clutching reader question. “Does WTF stand for what I think it stands for?” Yes. Maybe. Depends. See, let me explain. In the immortal words of the great fictional Realtor Phil Dunphy, I like…