PARKER, TEXAS: Why Is It So Great?!

Parker, Texas is awesome. Parker, Texas is an incredible community. I don't live in Parker, but I was super proud to. When we last considered moving, which is actually when we tore down our old home and built a new home on our lot, so we didn't want to leave our lot, but the the old house was not going to be the the long-term house. I only looked in two places, and I'm just going to be open about this. Parker was number one, and number two was a couple of really cool pockets of less. Do you have any regrets? I have no regrets. We're really glad with what we did. But I will just tell you, this area of Parker off of Dublin is incredible. It's one of those places, and you'll know when I say it what I mean, where it's like the way you get there, you don't think you're going to someplace like this, and then once you're there, you know you're someplace special, and it's an it's a magical little pocket that is like set apart from the rest of the community around it. You could say that for Parker. I want to drive over there. It sounds like Disneyland. You could say that for Parker as a whole, but then within Parker, this corridor up and down Dublin Road is really unique. It's where just no two properties are the same. It's one of those winding two-lane country roads, but there are some gorgeous like multiple acre properties that are estate style properties. And then nearby there's old traditional Dallas style ranchstyle home that's still on multiple acres that's very wellmaintained. Beautiful landscaping, large lots, well-kept homes. You've got 7,000t homes over there and you've got 1,800T homes over there. But they're just unique properties. They're well-kept. It's clean. It's safe. People love it. It's private. It's not like along anyone's main route, so it's not high traffic. I'll drive through there after church on Sunday sometimes just cuz I'm not in quite as much. I'm trying not to be in quite as much of a hurry. Uh, and enjoy it. There's just some incredible properties over there. Some beautiful event venues over there. One that I know of. There may only be one. And then there is some that have been torn down and rebuilt with that kind of estate feel where there's a big beautiful barn. There's a main house. There might even be a secondary home. Parker's known for larger lot properties. So, all of Parker has some of those elements. Um, the schools over there are generally highly thought of and desirable. People have different criteria for school, so you can make your own opinions. But generally speaking, people are really happy to live there for the schools, the city services, the parks, um the quietness, the space, the location. I mean, you're right there at the edge of Allen and Plano and Richardson and uh Murphy and Firewheel and all those really, really positive, well thought of, awesome areas. You're nearby restaurants and shopping, but inside Parker, you're mostly a bedroom community where you don't have a lot of that type of stuff. Now, we have a home coming on the market basically as we speak, maybe yesterday, um, for a longtime client and friend of ours. We're not going to say exactly where it is. If you want to know about it, give us a call. But, it's it this is a really cool option and it's very representative of Parker, so that's why we're going to spend a minute or two talking about it. But, um, this is an old ranch style. I say old meaning it's not a new construction ranch style home on a little bit more than two acres with frontage on the creek um where you can have your chickens, you could raise other animals. There's room for campers or a shop or woodworking garden orchard. Uh and this home over over the course of our friends living there has had I think everything I just said except an orchard. They've got gardens. Yeah. They've had animals, pool and they have fruit trees. Yeah. But it's not it's not intentionally. It's not a dedicated like grid orchard, but they've got fruit trees, garden area, area for the chickens, pool area on a creek, room for playing and hanging out, and then near it are huge new and newer homes. Uh I mean, somebody bought a lot next to it and threw up a gorgeous, large, nice new home in the last several years. They're at the very end of a very private road. They're within a really good golfer drive of South Fork, which is the the ranch from the TV show Dallas, which by the way, that's being redeveloped. We did some content on that on the radio show. That's being redeveloped into a residential community starting now. They're already moving dirt over there. So, this whole area of Parker is highly desirable, but this home's perfectly representative. This is one of the homes that's been there for a little while, ranch style. Uh, I think it's four bedrooms originally. You've got a garage conversion that gives you kind of a cool bunk room type feel. If you've got some, uh, you if you have a larger family or if you've got some older kids that want their own space, um, it's just a really cool property. She's got like three sitting areas for outside like to be able to watch the sunset and to sit in the back. Multiple inside living areas. Kind of homeschool classroom area or home office type area. Yeah, great home. And and the reason we talk about that a is that home is literally for sale right now. So, if you're interested or you know somebody that's interested in something like very private, end of a very very private road, super quiet, but also just right there in the heart of very cool Parker, Texas stuff and within five minutes of all the shopping and restaurants and things you need. Um, but also because there are many homes like that in Parker. Parker is just known for properties like that. Now, I was I was bragging on that Dublin area that's typically known for nicer, fancier estate type properties, but there's definitely some of exactly what we just talked about. And I'll tell you I'll tell you a little secret, Ian. I have to talk like this. Okay, not everybody can get one like this, but we had some other very longtime client friends that were living in Murphy had an awesome house. We sold that one for them and helped them just this is not something we can promise everybody. But get in over off of Dublin for a nice chunk under a million on a two plus acre property on a home that needed a little bit of work. I pro I'll tell you they'll never sell that house. I will I will advise them to literally never sell that house. To get over there relatively affordably to that market and be able to have that type of property in that area is like a once in a-lifetime opportunity. And we do that stuff for folks. We had had our eye on that area for them for over a year and were able to do that. But that's what happens in Parker. That's how incredible that area is that people will wait for a year to find an ideal home over