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.

Custom Home in Frisco’s Starwood Shines With Remodel

By Bethany Erickson / August 18, 2019 /

Realtors get really excited when they get a listing in Starwood, the gated community in Frisco just north of Lebanon Road and west of the Dallas North Tollway. It’s gorgeous, exclusive, and the homes always shine. So it was no surprise when Jennifer Menon with William Davis Realty reached out to us last week bursting…

Home on the Links Ready For Luxury Leasing in Frisco

By Bethany Erickson / August 17, 2019 /

Although we kicked off our new luxury lease feature in Dallas, last week we hit Westlake — so what’s one more ‘burb? This week, we’re heading to Frisco, where we’ve found a luxury lease right on the golf course that is going to make some newly relocated executive a perfect showpiece while he or she…

Situated in Farmers Branch, Dallas ISD’s Chapel Hill Prep Is Hidden Gem

By Bethany Erickson / August 17, 2019 /

The 2019 school accountability scores were issued by the Texas Education Agency this week (more on that next week), just in time for this week’s School + House, where we head to the one Dallas ISD school in Farmers Branch — Chapel Hill Preparatory.  Full disclosure — we’re a newly-minted Chapel Hill family. But what…

Charlotte, North Carolina For the First Time Buyer

By Bethany Erickson / August 16, 2019 /

Let’s Taco ‘Bout Whether The World Needs a Taco Bell Hotel

By Bethany Erickson / August 14, 2019 /

So, if you’re not up on your fast-food news, it may indeed be new information when I tell you that Taco Bell opened a Taco Bell Hotel in Palm Springs recently. “From check-in to check-out, The Bell: A Taco Bell Hotel and Resort reimagines what a hotel stay can be, unveiling a destination inspired by…