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Wherein We Venture Into the Wednesday WTF Mailbag

By Adlene Neely Dealey / January 15, 2020 /

When my predecessor handed over the reins to this esteemed weekly feature, she warned me that my Internet search history would never recover and that my inbox would become a Wednesday WTF mailbag of mayhem. She was correct. Some inherit jewels, some inherit money, some inherit good or bad genes, and even the wind. I…

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Pick This House for the Pun Potential? Gnome, Sweden’t

By Adlene Neely Dealey / October 16, 2019 /
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Do you like gnomes? Do you feel like seeing a gnome or three and maybe learn about Sweden? No matter, you will after we’re done with you today. Today, we travel to Sweden, and not just Frisco or Grand Prairie Sweden, but Sweden-Sweden.

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Well, Unique Is One Word For It, We Suppose

By Adlene Neely Dealey / October 9, 2019 /

Church conversions — well, done church conversions, that is — are always fun. Move the pews out of the way, take advantage of the stained glass and the high ceilings, and really create something unique. Or, you can create something really, really unique.

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The One Where We Scare Up a Great Starter Home

By Bethany Erickson / September 25, 2019 /

I’m gonna call it, and you’re probably gonna argue with me, but this week’s Wednesday WTF is a listing for a great starter home where the Realtor has done something that has been done to death. So, meet this cute little starter home in Florida. As with everything in Florida, it seems normal until it’s…

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The One Where They Put the ‘Home’ in Homicide (or Something)

By Bethany Erickson / September 18, 2019 /

I’m not sure what it says when two different people send you two different stories about murder houses in a week, but hi, it’s Wednesday and we’re going to talk about homicide and houses. No, not houses where the photography is so bad, or the cleaning so derelict that it looks like a murder house,…

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