Emerging Real Estate Markets
Last Friday evening Rockwall builder Mike Mishler, of Mishler Builders, was honored with the prestigious 2013 Hugh Prather Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Dallas Builders Association. The award has been presented annually for the past 63 years to a builder, remodeler or developer who has done the most for the betterment of his…
SecondShelters.com welcomes its newest expert contributor, Dallas Addison, who really IS from Dallas, Texas!
My name is Dallas Addison, and my passion is real estate. I’m trained as a lawyer and have helped many clients throughout the country buy, sell, develop and manage all types of real estate over the years, with a particular focus on recreational and hospitality-based real estate, such as golf courses, resorts, ranches, second homes, etc. I’m also a founding principal of Preservation Land Company, which has created several incredible (if I may say so) conservation-based recreational ranches near Dallas and worked on projects in Montana, Hawaii and New Mexico. On the educational side, I’m a long-time member of the Recreation Development Council of the Urban Land Institute, a global organization of leaders in the real estate industry whose mission is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.
To tell the truth, I have long dreamed of living life in a Tudor. This started years ago when I would drive through the streets of Winnetka and Evanston in the northern Chicago suburbs. Row upon row upon row of neat, tidy, warm-looking homes that made me feel both secure and romantic all at the same time. Not all were Tudors, but most were. They were solid, like the shoulders of Chicago. Then there was my time at Dartmouth when I studied English at Sanborn House, home of the Dartmouth English Department, where tea was served every day at 4:00 p.m. I fancied myself quite the Brit and swore that the rest of my life I would be forever surrounded by rich, dark English woods, cast stone, heavy spindled chairs, archways, gables, and Elizabethan anything. Edwin David Sanborn was a Dartmouth English professor for whom Sanborn House was built and named. He used to hold Thursday afternoon teas, served to undergraduates in his home. When Sanborn House was built, a wealthy alumnus, Sanborn’s son, actually, left an endowment to have Professor Sanborn’s tea custom upheld in perpetuity. Thus everyone takes a study or teaching break daily at 4:00 p.m. and gathers for tea and brilliant conversation in the middle of this dignified, gothic architecture at Sanborn House.
As Joanna told us earlier, the shuttering of Washington, D.C. is taking a toll on the real estate market somewhat. You may recall Paige Phelps, who worked in Dallas for People Newspapers then for The North Texas Food Bank. “It’s a USDA rural home loan (I’m in Marfa now) and I’ve been approved,” says Paige. “It’s just…
I am so glad you posted this, Jo. I cannot say I blame her one bit, and there is no telling what we ladies might do when our nests are invaded and ruffled, adrenaline kicks in AND the SOB dares to help himself to beers in your fridge! (I wonder if he left dirty fingerprints,…
