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June is National Homeownership Month -- have to admit I was not aware of that, although I did just see a very annoying former co-worker post a first home purchase photo on Facebook yesterday, complete with six feet between him, his wife, and the...Read more

We do get questions about this consistently, so we wanted to organize it into a post in case you come across it. Credit check/credit score You were likely familiar with this as a parameter that an apartment complex will look at. Score requirements...Read more

I've actually lived in North Texas (Fort Worth) for six years next month, and in that time I have been to Frisco approximately twice -- driven through it more than that, yes. From my limited interaction, it's a super cool area, and in my time at...Read more

Let's start with some math Late-2019 (that seems like forever ago, doesn't it?) research from Apartment List showed 49.7% of the 41M renters in the U.S. were "rent-burdened," or "cost-burdened," which is typically defined as spending more than 30%...Read more

We have spent the past week or so on a Collin County kick, looking at new apartments in Plano , Frisco , and the McKinney/Allen/Richardson area. Now we just want to spend a second on price points you can expect in Collin County. Collin County rental...Read more

This week we’ve covered brand new apartments in Frisco and brand new apartments in Plano. We try to do about three posts per week on here, and today we’re going to group together some other areas: these are brand new apartments in Allen, McKinney,...Read more

In the past couple of weeks, we took a look at the future of Fort Worth and the future of Dallas -- guesswork related to trends. We were going to do a future of Collin County, but that felt by the wayside a bit (sorry). Instead, yesterday we looked...Read more

Both Collin and Denton counties tripled their population in the last two decades. As a logical result, development was ramped up in those areas, especially in Plano, which was aiming to become a true “city of excellence” designed with residents in...Read more