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Avast ye hearties! Tis’ be a new year for resolutions and good times. My resolve for this year is to live the life of an old seadog. Arrr you following along with me, you scallywags? No need for landlubbers. It is a pirate’s life for me. Now before you all contact CandysDirt.com and let them…
When it comes to electricity at home, there are lots of Do’s and Don’ts. Today’s standards for electrical appliances and home wiring are designed to keep us from hurting ourselves, much more so than in the past, but it’s important to remember that electricity is dangerous. If you have an electrical problem that can’t be solved by turning it off…
From Staff Reports Aaron Carroll and Blake Eltis have taken their shingle to the newest in a litany of luxury brokers that have come to hang their hat in Texas, Douglas Elliman. “The Carroll/Eltis Group is a team of highly regarded agents in the Dallas market, and we could not be happier that they are…
“We’ve called the police at least two dozen times,” said Dave Norman. “I have a file as thick as my forehead.” Norman lived across the alley from a short-term rental (STR) “party house” off Meadow Road, and his 12-year-old daughter was continually subjected to loud (and lewd) rap music through her bedroom walls, which bordered…
Texas homebuyers quickly find their new mailboxes filled with solicitations and requests after their purchase. They are also overrun with appeals and demands for information regarding the purchase of their property. In addition to the sham mortgage insurance offers and tax filing service scams are enticements to disclose the sales price of their property. Most…
New Years Day was more than just champagne hangovers and hefty drycleaning bills. Jan. 1, 2022, also ushered in a series of state laws that will affect various aspects of the real estate industry. Many of these new provisions are aimed at reducing the property tax burden and keeping more money in the pockets of…
