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.

Updated Midcentury Ranch Corners the Market For The Perfect First Home

By Bethany Erickson / October 18, 2018 /

When you’re a young family, you look for certain things in your first home — and first and foremost, you’re probably going to be looking for the home that can give you the most bang for your buck. It’s one of the reason we bring our readers regular features like the Tuesday Two Hundred and…

The One Where the Listing Photos Are Virtually Amazing (or Something)

By Bethany Erickson / October 17, 2018 /

Listen, we know Realtors are busy people. You have houses to show, buyers to drive around, sellers to cajole, closings to sit through. And on top of all that, you’re in charge of making sure the photos effectively market the houses you’re listing. Exhausting.

East Dallas Charmer Perfectly Priced for First-Time Buyers

By Bethany Erickson / October 16, 2018 /

It’s not often you find an East Dallas home with four bedrooms and two baths for less than $250,000, which is why Lauri Ann Hanson with Dave-Perry Miller InTown knew to alert us that she had what she calls “a unicorn.” And that unicorn, which is located on 11336 Quail Run St., was a perfect…

Absentee Ballot Correction Causes Some Voter Confusion

By Bethany Erickson / October 15, 2018 /

Anna Wilson was expecting her absentee ballot to arrive in her mailbox at Washington University in St. Louis sometime this month. But she was surprised to open her mailbox to find two envelopes bearing ballots from the Dallas County Elections Department. “I think these were actually sent out at slightly different times,” the college student…

Real Estate News: City to Hold Neighborhood Grant Workshops

By Bethany Erickson / October 15, 2018 /

Find out how your neighborhood can apply for a vitality grant, and find out what North Texas city tops the list when it comes to annoying neighbors in this week’s roundup of real estate news. CITY TO HOLD GRANT WORKSHOPS The City of Dallas will hold workshop sessions to assist neighborhood organizations who wish to…