Are There Any Real Estate Neighborhood Tours Offered in DFW? (Dallas: home, neighborhoods)

[RobbBrown21]

Folks,

Does anyone know of any companies that offer neighborhood real estate tours for folks who are relocating to the DFW area?

Specifically, I would like a day city/real estate neighborhood tour to provide an overview to cover the DFW neighborhoods and to get a flavor for the various types of neighborhoods and landmarks. Looking to relocate but want to really city that various areas. It would be nice if this tour included Desired North Dallas, South Dallas and Ft. Worth.

If the tour hit highlights that would be great was well. Please feel free to send me direct messages with companies or real estate companies who may offer this service. I would be willing to pay a fee for this type of tour.

Thanks.



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[Dallas native]

Good idea, but you would need to take a helicopter tour. The DFW area is much too large to tour on land in just one day. You would need to isolate the areas that you are interested in. The cities of Dallas and Ft. Worth could each easily take a full day just to get an overview. Then there are dozens of suburbs surrounding each city. To give you an idea of how large the DFW area is, compare it to the state of Massachusetts. The entire Dallas/Ft.Worth/Arlington metropolitan statistical area Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is home to over 6.1 million people and contains about 9,300 square miles. The STATE of Massachusetts Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, which is home to 6.5 million people spread over 10,500 square miles is only a little bit larger. I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing, that's just the way it is. You can't get a good overview of Mass. in one day. Same thing fpr the DFW metro.

[momof2dfw]

Hmmm, it could be done though. With MUCH planning, foresight and by someone that KNOWS the areas very very well. What price range and type of home are you looking for, your starting point (where will you be staying?) and such and I'm sure some of us could give you a quick 1-Day tour of the area. Of course we will probably mention places to stop to grab a bite to eat, pit stop, etc. along the route. Oh, and where have you already been that you don't need to see in this whirlwind 1 day tour? In another post you mentioned Uptown.... if you are familiar w/ Uptown then we could bypass that and head to other areas.

[Big G]

I don't know of such a thing, but it's a GREAT idea!

When we relocated back in 2000, our first realtor tried to shove Frisco down our throats - "You get the most for your money - it's where ALL the relo people go!" Well, we had no interest in signing up for an hour-long commute each way.

After we ditched her, our second realtor hooked us up with Plano. Although that's worked out fine, it would have been nice to understand our options a lot better. For example, we learned, once our son started school, that we could have lived less than 3 miles from my wife's job and still been in the Plano ISD.

[ParkRowPioneer]

Yes. A corrollary to "location, location, location" is realtor, realtor, realtor. I can recommend a very nice realtor who helped me buy my home. She is from real estate family, so she knows the DFW area very well. I don't think she knows Plano, Frisco, and the northern exurbs as well, but the first realtor I used would be absolutely fantastic for those areas (and she was saintly patient with me). Shoot me an email if you would like either or both names.