Wednesday WTF

Wednesday WTF: Meet Me At the Five Malls of Uptown Dallas

By Bethany Erickson / March 28, 2018 /

When you work in the world of media for any length of time at all, you will get PR pitches. Some of them are perfect pitches inviting you to check out some product or service that is completely related to what you write about. But sometimes, they are not. Sometimes, they are about busting cheaters…

Wednesday WTF: Every Single One of You Sent Me This Link

By Bethany Erickson / March 21, 2018 /

Social media is a blessing (most of the time). You can talk to your friends. You can keep track of who broke ugly after high school. You can argue with strangers about collusion. And you can also have 100 people simultaneously send you the same home listing because they know part of your job is…

Wednesday WTF: The Brown Chicken, Brown Cow Edition

By Bethany Erickson / March 14, 2018 /

So, dear Wednesday WTF readers, tell me: If a house was absolutely drop-dead gorgeous, filled with every amenity you could dream of, and absolutely in your budget, can you name one thing that would make you decide to walk away from buying it? Maybe a murder, I suppose, but that sort of thing is supposed…

Wednesday WTF: I Want To Go To There, the Private Islands Edition

By Bethany Erickson / March 7, 2018 /

So the other day I was flipping through my latest copy of Private Islands magazine, as one does, being super fancy in my super fancy house in a super fancy part of Dallas. * And I realized that if you’re not super fancy, as I am, you may not know about Private Islands magazine, nor…

Wednesday WTF: Truth in Advertising, the Real Estate Edition

By Bethany Erickson / February 28, 2018 /

So, Realtors, have you ever had a house you’ve had trouble moving, and have been super desperate to just unload it already? Because today’s Wednesday WTF is definitely about a Realtor who was in such a predicament. See, Ellis King has a perfectly lovely listing in Manvel — a Houston exburb near Pearland and Alvin…