Articles for July 30th, 2009
While You Were Out Of Town, Ctd.
We are not talking a small tree here.
Every Dallas Homeowner’s Nightmare: While You Were Out Of Town…
That big, beautiful tree in the backyard split and fell on the house. P.S. This is why it is important to be nice to your next door neighbors. Hint hint.
Tree House Debacle In The Park Cities: Maybe Happy Ending?
So Merritt Patterson wrote up the story of a PC man who built his kids a treehouse and even lost a thumb in the process, I think, and the nazis village of UP wants to make him tear it down because it violates code that says treehouses are to be in the backyard only. So she spreads the word, you go girl, next thing you know the story is all over the media world — Good Morning America, LA Times, local TV stations and all. (I hear Ahmadinejad is siding with University Park.) Now does it get to stay? Fabulous work, Merritt!
Did Dallas Miss Out On The World’s Biggest Real Estate Boom?
Wick poses the question over on Frontburner, with this colorful chart. I think we need to keep in mind that the purple line that represents Dallas real estate values is an overall average of everything from Preston Trails to Oak Cliff. There are parts of town –Park Cities, Preston Hollow, Lakewood — that, if graphed, I think would look more like Seattle. Real estate is about as local a story as you can get. And I wish I had bought more real estate in 1999.
Sure Sign That The Real Estate Boom Is Returning
Saw this sign on the back of a pick-up truck while driving. Which can mean only one thing —Baby, it’s back!
First Time Homebuyer: A Work In Progress
I had forgotten how messy it is to install hardwood floors, engineered or whatever. Sawdust everywhere. But the results should be well worth it if you remember what this place looked like. Don’t forget to send me your fist time or any-time home project.
Ruth Buzzi Makes Southlake Primary Home
Must be, because Mama says she has sold her Hollywood Hills House.I had heard that Miss Buzzi and her uber loaded hubby Kent Perkins just love Texas and have quite the spread in Southlake. OK, please tell me you remember Ruth Buzzi from Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, which I used to watch while in utero. And please tell me you remember Laugh-In.
About That Lot At 4500 Lakeside Drive
That would be Tim Eller’s lot, but I am now told that lot is no longer available. But Tim’s son John Eller has joined the dynamic real estate sales team of Ben Jones at Allie Beth Allman, Ben being the agent who was marketing Tim Eller’s lot. I’m showing the lot still being in the Eller family name.
Guess Which Industry Is Actually Spending LESS On Lobbying This Year?
The Real Estate industry. Yup, according to David Levinthal’s Capital Eye Blog, lobbying by the industry (not just Realtors) fell 30% as of second quarter, 2009, compared to 2008 when the industry dumped pumped in $22.9 million by June 30, 2008. Down market or not, Real Estate outspent the financial industry, spending $33,574,438
to the financial folks’ $15,566,059.
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