Jon Anderson
Jon Anderson is CandysDirt.com's condo/HOA and developer columnist, but also covers second home trends on SecondShelters.com. An award-winning columnist, Jon has earned silver and bronze awards for his columns from the National Association of Real Estate Editors in both 2016, 2017 and 2018. When he isn't in Hawaii, Jon enjoys life in the sky in Dallas.
Sometimes you happen upon reminders of the different courses your life may have taken. Back in 2000, I was in the process of moving to Dallas from California and had settled on a shell townhouse in Oak Lawn on Throckmorton Street. I’d signed the contract and met with the builder to discuss my customizations and…
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It seemed straight-forward enough. Replace an old slide-in gas range with a new one. Not so fast. Of course, I began by researching which brand and model offered the best combination of reliability and performance (it’d be in a rental property so reliability is important). I trundled over to the library to check out Consumer…
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While the views above are truly million dollar, they’re not wildly more expensive than during last year’s Hawaii special edition. Once again, I’m taking one for the team to scope out a favorite place for Texas second home buyers. In 2015, the state reported that 2.3 percent of all Hawaiian real estate was purchased by…
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In Part One, you learned about the final plan to be delivered to the city by the Preston Center Task Force. It’s been two years in the making and cost $300,000 to produce a plan with little substance and holes a developer could drive a truck through. Here in part two, we’ll finish out by…
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If I could sum up this final report by the Northwest Highway and Preston Road Area Plan task force, it would be that it took two years and $300,000 to identify what will cost the city even more money and more time to actually attempt to solve. But that’s what you get when a group…
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