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This East Kessler charmer reduced me to giddiness. Avoiding the temptation to over-modernize, its owners have created a lovely balance between the home’s original charm and contemporary conveniences. And it’s a great size for the area at 2,613 square feet. The walk-up is just lovely. The wide porch makes me hope that it’s just one…
There are pitfalls to avoid all through the mortgage process, but rarely are clients adequately educated about what not to do before they try to get a home loan. Luckily,Bob Johnson (AKA BobMortgage), senior mortgage advisor at Wallick & Volk, is here to set homebuyers straight. Home loan financing can fall apart for many reasons. To…
If you’re a fan of a certain state school’s football team in Austin, and you would like a country getaway ready-made for riding horses and hosting your fellow season-ticket-holding friends, this is kind of your bag. Jarrell is about four miles north of Georgetown, which also puts you in spitting distance of Austin. And this farmhouse has…
One doesn’t want to be parochial, but one can’t fail to take an interest in the goings on on one’s own street. Move-in ready isn’t a term necessarily associated with Elizabeth Blvd., but since its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, the area has been undergoing a steady process of re-gentrification.…
Adding more single-family housing in downtown Dallas has definitely increased the vibrancy of our urban core, as the once desolate city center now has more full-time families and businesses. The days of downtown turning into a ghost town at 5 p.m. could be over. If you want an urban lifestyle but don’t want to live…
The discussion was at times contentious, but overall, Dallas Independent School District trustees were unified in their desire to change the names of four schools currently named for Confederate leaders. The board voted unanimously to require schools named after Albert Sidney Johnson, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and William L. Cabell to change their…
