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Frankly, we don’t know how they do it. Heading into their 40th year, the organizers of the Lakewood Home Tour always find proud homeowners willing to share their gorgeous and often architecturally significant houses with the public. In doing so they have raised millions of dollars since 1976, all benefitting local schools. This year, six…
Wall cracks can be the first scream of a North Texas homeowner’s worst nightmare: foundation problems. The discovery can be terrifying because the cure is often very expensive. Our area’s clay soils “expand and contract like a sponge,” says Jim Fontaine, who experienced the costly consequences first hand. “(Typical slab) foundations just can’t handle that…
Only in LA would someone create art out of the presidential election AND mix it in with real estate. These images are popping up all over bus-stop benches in Pacific Palisades, Brentwood and Beverly Hills, and sprinkled in the yards of various homes for sale. The artist, an ultra conservative (I guess) named Sabo, is…
As if the doom and gloom from the almost-over election isn’t bad enough, the city of Dallas has an economic crisis brewing that will most likely mean higher property taxes in the future. How would that affect our local real estate market? I was speaking to a prominent agent last week about the sticker shock…
Are you experiencing election fatigue? Has the news cycle gotten you down? Need a distraction from checking FiveThirtyEight.com every five seconds for Election Day updates? Then you should make plans to head to Stonebriar Country Club tomorrow for a luncheon with the Dallas Builders Association, as Candy Evans herself will moderate a panel of speakers…
Have you ever been curious about the financial alchemy that goes into determining your mortgage interest rate? In this week’s installment of The Mortgage Report with BobMortgage, find out what lenders look at when it comes to determining your interest rate. You may know him as Bob Johnson, the senior mortgage advisor at Wallick & Volk, the…
