We all know that, when it comes to marketing, the world has changed. And when it comes to marketing real estate, we may as well be on a different planet. No longer are cute cards and glossy brochures and, some might add, print advertising in pretty magazines and newspapers, enough. You’ve got to go viral,…
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A reader writes: “What is your professional opinion of having a washer dryer in a master suite closet? I have had people either love it or hate it, so I had my architect draw up a separate utility room that would be accessible from the kitchen in my home at Westlake. I also have a…
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Dallas Fed president and CEO Richard Fisher told the Dallas Real Estate Council this morning the usual rah rah Texas stuff: Texans are uniquely qualified to turn the economy around and get a grip on the nation’s $14.2 trillion debt. Lower unemployment here. We built and can continue the greatest job-creating machine in the world,…
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Starting today, you might see more mortgage brokers hitting the bars or unemployment lines. April 1, that’s today, marks the day the rules change on how mortgage brokers earn their pay. Old way: mortgage brokers get discounted loans from big banks and they offer them to consumers. They charge a fee, which comes as a…
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I cannot tell you how many times I have been in the (former) CompUSA store on the east side of the Dallas North Tollway between Belt Line Road and Arapaho Road in (what some call) far North Dallas. Cables, computers, you name it, I’ve been there to buy it. And when that building vacated several…
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I think this is one second dig every homeowner ought to have — a bomb shelter! And talk about a business that doubles every year — go into the bomb shelter business! Sales of high tech survival shelters have surged from 20 to 1,000%, thanks to our national angst. Veteran bunker builder Walton McCarthy calls…
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