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In the 11 years I have lived in East Dallas, I have had chickens for eight of them. When we first started out as urban chicken keepers, the trend was still relatively new, and the places from which you might score chicken feed were still limited. Today you can run down to Gecko Hardware and…
The East Dallas housing market is booming. Builders lay in wait for anything resembling a tear down, and existing homes are being renovated at a dizzying pace. It’s extremely hard to nab an original house that’s been beautifully updated, but we’ve found one for you at 6813 Clayton. It’s an adorable 2,244-square-foot traditional Gastonwood Tudor…
Your tax appraisals are supposed to be in the mail today, which means we will all be drinking a lot tomorrow. “The average increase for almost every homeowner will be around 14%, is what we have heard,” says our Tax Doctor, Rob Wheelock. Why? “Look at Case-Shiller and sales, look at what you have been…
It’s not just Dallas and northern suburbs where homes are notably appreciating and sales are “fly-off-the-market” fast. Arlington, Grand Prairie, and Mansfield showed substantial increases last month in both home prices and sales, according to a new report from the Arlington Board of Realtors. Arlington home sales increased 9 percent, Grand Prairie’s increased 9 percent, and Mansfield home sales increase a…
A whole lot of ugly politics has happened during the last few weeks of this school board election. And if you’re like me, you’re dismayed by the antics of people you respected, worried about whether this signals a new round of hostilities at board meetings, and probably just flat out tired of it. You may…
If you look at a lot of flipped houses in the under-$400K range, a pattern starts to emerge in the look and feel. In the sea of beige, you might occasionally see something unusual, but for the most part, flippers follow the “what will appeal to the largest audience and cost the least” formula. So…
