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Realtor Mike Bates is known as the ‘Turn-Around Guy.’ From restoring old homes and automobiles, to making an unsellable home into a top-dollar sale, nothing, it seems, is immune to his magic. He has built his career around selling difficult-to-sell listings. Just recently, Bates took a $3 million home that had been on the market…
Former first lady Laura Bush’s childhood home at 2500 Humble Drive in Midland was just listed for $410,000 by Caroline Earles of Trudy Thomason Realty, boasting original design attributes from when Bush lived there from 1961 to 1963. Find out more about the history inside this home on MidlandDirt.com.
We’ve all seen it happen: A well-meaning buyer purchases an older home inside a historic district and sets to work making a 100-year-old home fit a 21st century lifestyle, but instead of maintaining the character and feel of the home, they iron out the quirkiness and history into basic oblivion. However, in the case of…
Well kids, we’ve reached the halfway point in our series. The first two covered buildings where utilities are included in their HOA dues as well as the outlying Bonaventure and Grand Treviso (here and here). The next pair, including this one, detail Dallas’ high-rise, high-roller buildings (here and literally right here). Next week we’ll hit the first…
By day, Jessica and Ray Mabry are architects at HKS, with busy careers and two young children. As if work and parenthood don’t already add up to plenty for most of us mere mortals, The Mabrys recently formed Lark Properties and took on their first flip. While that seems like a lot to handle, the…
If you’ve assumed Tesla Solar roofs would be priced sky high, prepare to be amazed. The company opened up ordering last week and they priced, on average, at $21.85 per square foot. That’s less than the cost of a regular roof, taking into consideration the energy savings over a 30-year period. These roofs aren’t 100 percent solar tiles —…
