4524 BELCLAIRE AVENUE - HIGHLAND PARK $1,995,900 MLS 11395920 Even though it seems to be becoming an oddity, some builders and home restorers remain committed to retaining the elegant architectural fabric of Dallas' premier neighborhood -- a city all in itself -- Highland Park. It's one I defin
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04/27/2010
MATT DOYLE Citizen of the Year This is Matthew Doyle, whose been confined to a wheelchair since his teen years when he dove into water that was more shallow that he had assessed it to be. Matt's a member of Texas City's Chuck Doyle family. The Doyles have been pillars of Texas City and Galvesto
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04/27/2010
REDUCED TO $308,000 Preface My formative years as a Realtor involved listing and selling Galveston historic homes and renovating a number of them myself. In addition, I was one of the most active participants in the adaptive restoration of the iron front buildings on Strand and Mechanic streets.
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04/26/2010
The Great Foondini has been amazing clients, lenders and competitors with his home selling prestidigitations for 45 years. Need real estate magic at your house? Call the Great Foondini at 214 503-8563 right now while it's on your mind. (The Great Foondini's stage name is Bill Cherry.) BILL CHER
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04/24/2010
I drove by a relatively new strip center the other day. It is surrounded by upscale garden apartments and it's on a Dallas freeway to Somewhere. Here's the list of tenants: Palm reader, tattoo parlor, Condoms to Go, nail shop, head shop, liquor store with bars on the windows and doors, and a Bi
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04/24/2010
While in recent years I've lived in Dallas, and at several other times in my life I've lived other places -- Denton, New Orleans and St. Louis -- in my mind I've always lived in Galveston. Galveston is where I was born and where I was the most successful in my business career. It's where my mom
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04/23/2010
I'm inclined to wonder if the reason the U.S. can't seem to control the border we share with Mexico is because business lobbies against it. After all, the United States has figured out how to have some sort of slave labor from inception. There were the imported black slaves, the underage childre
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04/18/2010
You've often read my posts about Dallas' great jazz orchestra that plays most Sunday evenings at the Village Country Club. It's lead by my friend, superb trumpet player, Galen Jeter, whose been fronting big bands for more than 30 years. Galen and his orchestra also have charts and arrangements o
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04/17/2010
THE PRIME EXAMPLE OF CURB APPEAL This home sold the other day for more than 3/4 of a million dollars, and it did it in a neighborhood where there is currently more than a two year supply of listings. The home was not my listing and I wasn't the selling agent. Where it is or whose listing it i
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04/17/2010
The MetroTex Association of Realtors services the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, and the last time I asked, there were about 14,000 members. Recently the Association conducted an on-line survey of its members. And while I don't know the size of the sample or the calculated margin of error, I suspect the
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04/16/2010
