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.

Real Estate News: Dallas Apartments Have Few Vacancies, But Significant Rent Growth

By Bethany Erickson / December 17, 2018 /

How did Dallas’s rent growth stack up to the rest of the major metros in the state? Are we in a bubble? We look at this and more in this week’s roundup of real estate news. RENTS PREDICTED TO GROW IN DALLAS IN 2019 Most of the apartments in Dallas are occupied, and rent growth…

Renovated North Pole Home Perfect for Santa Watching

By Bethany Erickson / December 16, 2018 /

As we count down to mere single digits before Christmas Day, what better town to visit than North Pole, Alaska, where we’ve found a renovated Midcentury cabin surrounded by trees? That’s right, North Pole. Now, purists will say that the town, with a population of a little more than 2,000, just 14 miles southeast of…

Health Insurance Impacts Timely Rent, Mortgage Payments, Report Says

By Bethany Erickson / December 15, 2018 /

It’s not unusual to see GoFundMe or other crowdfunding efforts for someone who, facing a catastrophic health crisis, can’t afford to pay their rent or mortgage. But until now, those incidents remained anecdotal. But a study released this year by Emily A. Gallagher, Radhakrishnan Gopalan, and Michal Grinstein-Weis, professors and researchers at the University of…

Charming Tudor on Mistletoe Drive Could Be Ho-Ho-Home

By Bethany Erickson / December 15, 2018 /

Our Saturday Six Hundred for this week was an obvious choice — and not just because it happens to sit on Mistletoe Drive in historic Hollywood Heights-Santa Monica neighborhood. It’s also because it’s a charming Tudor that has only been on the market two times in its history — which is remarkable because it was…

Temperate Climate, Temperate Prices Makes Mesa a Retirement Hotspot

By Bethany Erickson / December 15, 2018 /

Editor’s Note: Recently, MoneyWise revealed its list of the 40 most frugal and friendly places to retire. In a bid to provide an idea of what housing inventory is available in these cities and towns, we’re taking a look at listings in each of the cities on the list. Not everyone can spend $1 million…