Tommy Cummings
Tommy moved to Texas from Oklahoma in 1992 and has lived in Mansfield with his wife, Brigitte, and son, Beaumont, since 2002 (after a two-year adventure in California as a tech columnist/editor at the San Francisco Chronicle). Tommy started his media career at newspapers in Oklahoma before becoming an editor in many capacities at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News, where he wrapped up his newsroom career as a digital editor. His work has appeared in news outlets throughout the U.S. Tommy can be reached at [email protected].
Back in junior high, I had a fun summer job painting manufactured homes across eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. Of course, a young teen can’t be trusted to paint a whole house. In reality, a relative had contracts with Jim Walters Homes to barnstorm the region and paint homes. My menial job was to paint…
The typical home value in September was $270,907, up 4.5 percent year over year, and 0.9 percent month over month, according to the Zillow Real Estate Market Report.
The Painted Tree 3,400-home development in McKinney comes at a time of a housing inventory shortage in North Texas and homeowners are staying close to home during the pandemic.
The San Francisco Chronicle recently posted a sobering story that we all expected: The devastating realities of this pandemic have put the Bay Area housing industry in a world of hurt. Headlined, “Yes, people are leaving San Francisco. After decades of growth, is the city on the decline?”, the story spelled out the economic hardships…
Despite predictions of widespread evictions because of economic distress caused by the pandemic, the apartment industry is weathering the storm, especially in the Dallas-Fort Worth market. So far, residents are making their rent payments on time. More than 87 percent of D-FW apartment households made a full or partial rent payment on time, according to…
