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“We’ve called the police at least two dozen times,” said Dave Norman. “I have a file as thick as my forehead.” Norman lived across the alley from a short-term rental (STR) “party house” off Meadow Road, and his 12-year-old daughter was continually subjected to loud (and lewd) rap music through her bedroom walls, which bordered…
By Phil Crone, Executive Officer Dallas Builders Associaiton The first thing I do before writing this column every year is go back and read the ones from prior years. I take inventory of the problems we solved and see if my premonitions of the ones ahead came true or not. Suffice it to say, I missed…
Plumbing is one of the most important systems of a house, so one of our jobs as a home inspectors is to put that system through its paces to make sure everything is working properly. Plumbing problems might be obvious — an overflowing toilet — or hidden —a disconnected pipe in the crawl space. Those hidden problems that…
There is some advice that should be so obvious that it should go without saying, like “Don’t play in traffic,” but overwhelming evidence tells us that when it comes to home maintenance, lots of people are oblivious. So here are a few things that we shouldn’t have to say, but we will anyway. We don’t…
David Preziosi, FAICP, Hon. AIA DallasExecutive Director, Preservation Dallas When Exchange Park opened in 1956 just a few miles north of downtown Dallas it was ahead of its time. Exchange Park broke barriers with its relatively new concept of mixed-use development with office towers, shops, restaurants, and even a bowling alley in one connected, temperature-controlled…
