Wylie

It’s All About Family In This Wylie Weekend One Hundred

By April Towery / August 17, 2019 /

You know what’s more important than location, location, location? Family, family, family. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home at 316 North Winding Oaks Drive, in Wylie, is all about open space for family time. Previous owners wanted to paint the town red – or at least the interior of the home – so a shabby chic barn…

Restored Modern Farmhouse in Wylie Turns Up the Charm

By Bethany Erickson / November 15, 2018 /

We don’t get out to Wylie enough, so when Erin Burkart with Keller Williams Central reached out to us during our Pitch Me Please round last week on our Facebook group, Getting the Dirt, we were super pumped when she shared the price — because it was perfect for this week’s Thursday Three Hundred. And,…

Is Your Home a 10-Minute Walk From a Park?

By Bethany Erickson / November 4, 2018 /

Is your home a 10-minute (or less) walk from a park? One-third of Americans have a much longer trek than that to get to their nearest park, according to research by the National Recreation and Park Association, Urban Land Institute and, The Trust for Public Land. Recently, Rachel Banner, a senior program manager at the…

If You Haven’t Been Following the Brockovich Water Controversy, This Will Catch You Up

By Shelby Skrhak / April 6, 2018 /

Is our water safe? That’s the question concerned residents are still asking three weeks after activist Erin Brockovich called B.S. (literally using the hashtag #StopTheBullshit) on Plano and the regional water district’s claims that the water was fine, despite its pungent chlorine smell. Now those residents are especially fired up after Brockovich revealed Thursday night…

Grenadier Homes at Creekside Estates Touts Great Schools, Great Location

By Joanna England / July 20, 2017 /

Do you hear that? It’s the sound of hundreds of North Texas teachers groaning as the first “Back to School” advertisements start showing up on websites and billboards.  For a lot of people, buying a home is closely associated with education, and many times parents (or parents to be) will select a home based on…