Alleged Crime & Real Estate
Every so often, I’ll get tipped about a listing in Dallas that seems too good to be true — a scam, some might say. Sometimes you get photos of the inside, and immediately understand why the Realtor or owner chose a bargain price. Other times, you know immediately it’s a scam. And that’s what happened Friday…
And he apparently had a 20 year grudge against the doctor, renown Houston cardiologist Dr. Mark Hausknecht, who was shot to death as he rode his bicycle to work on July 20. He has his own brokerage, Pappas Realty Company, which he apparently ran out of his Westbury house at 5003 Stillbrooke Drive. The suspect,…
Before we begin, I already know have a sick sense of humor with regards to gullibility. For real estate agents, I suspect this is partly a cautionary tale of celebrity blindness. Debbie Hymen, an agent with Berkshire Hathaway Home Services KoenigRubloff Realty Group (say that three times fast) apparently began showing Ricco Garrett (stage name…
If you live in North Dallas, you have probably been to the “new” Costco on Churchill Road, the one built on vacant land edging LBJ, Coit Road, and North Central Expressway. The one built with $3 million of our taxpayer dollars. I was there Saturday afternoon, in fact, and ran into many friends. On Sunday…
Living in the Hockaday/Midway area of North Dallas is really like living in the wild, wild west, that is, when gunfire was as common as church bells. On three different occasions starting on April 18, the Town North YMCA’s front windows have been shot at and shattered. The most recent vandalism occurred last Tuesday and…
