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.

Wednesday WTF: The Brown Chicken, Brown Cow Edition

By Bethany Erickson / March 14, 2018 /

So, dear Wednesday WTF readers, tell me: If a house was absolutely drop-dead gorgeous, filled with every amenity you could dream of, and absolutely in your budget, can you name one thing that would make you decide to walk away from buying it? Maybe a murder, I suppose, but that sort of thing is supposed…

When Gas Leaks Plague Your Neighborhood, What Happens to Home Values?

By Bethany Erickson / March 12, 2018 /

After a fatal home explosion three weeks ago that left one family burying their daughter and two neighborhoods reeling from the shock that the problem has been an ongoing one, the immediate concern was about safety. But now, a little more than a week into the massive, 2,800-customer gas service shutdown in Midway Hollow and…

On SecondShelters.com: Mamaroneck Historical Shelter Has Water and Manhattan Views

By Bethany Erickson / March 11, 2018 /

Imagine a home that’s a brief drive to everything Manhattan has to offer, but also gorgeous water views that stretch from Larchmont Harbor to the Long Island Sound.

Northaven Home Tour Highlights Post-WWII Neighborhoods, Benefits Local School

By Bethany Erickson / March 9, 2018 /

There are so many great schools in great Dallas neighborhoods, and one of my favorite school/neighborhood combinations is the basis for the second annual Northaven Home Tour, which benefits Arthur Kramer Elementary PTA. The tour features five homes in the neighborhoods around Kramer, gorgeous homes that were built in the 1950s and 1960s and now…

When the Disaster Happens, Neighbors Do, Too

By Bethany Erickson / March 7, 2018 /

I’ll be honest. At first, when I first had the idea of writing about how the neighborhoods impacted by the deadly home explosion two weeks ago — and the aftermath — I was thinking of a straight news story. But I realized fairly quickly that I couldn’t. You see, I know these neighborhoods. My child…