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.

Rumor Mill Churns Ahead of Big Ebby Halliday Meeting Today

By Bethany Erickson / May 21, 2018 /

Rumors abound ahead of a big company-wide Ebby Halliday meeting in Frisco today — namely that one of the oldest and most prestigious shingles in regional real estate might be selling. But company officials are mum, despite a Dallas Morning News article this morning all but insisting that the company is selling to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire…

Dallas-Fort Worth Boasts One of Lowest Home Buy-Rent Breakevens

By Bethany Erickson / May 21, 2018 /

It takes about a year and a half for a home to hit the buy-rent breakeven horizon in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, research by Zillow economists for the first quarter of 2018 revealed. The Zillow Buy-Rent Breakeven Horizon measures the amount of time it takes for owning a home to make more financial sense than…

The Dark Lord is Watching From His North Carolina Tudor

By Bethany Erickson / May 16, 2018 /

So sometimes you find a fixer and you think, “Oh, maybe there’s shiplap,” or “maybe there are hardwoods under that vinyl,” or “maybe Satan lives here.” This week’s Wednesday WTF is a reader-submitted Tudor, and is definitely a contender for a hot new HGTV show called “Beelzebub’s Baseboards.” No? How about “Lucifer and Liens?” “Mephistopheles…

Deadline to File Property Tax Protest is Today

By Bethany Erickson / May 15, 2018 /

Although we’ve warned you a couple of times, just in case you missed it — today is kind of a big deal if you own a home. Today is the deadline (unless you’re in Denton County) to protest your property taxes for this year. If this has caught you unawares, don’t fret — one local…

On SecondShelters.com: Cape Escape Offers Historical Shelter For Less than $1M

By Bethany Erickson / May 13, 2018 /

It’s not often that you can find a property with the kind of income potential this week’s historical shelter has for less than $1 million. But this six bedroom, four-and-a-half-bath colonial revival home in Cape Charles, Virginia, has been lovingly restored and renovated, and also had an addition to accommodate the history of the home…