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Living in Fort Worth, Texas
The other end of the metroplex, in Tarrant County.
Living in Fort Worth
Fort Worth is the county seat of Tarrant County and the other half of this metroplex's name. It covers almost 350 square miles, which makes it huge on the inside: here you don't pick a city, you pick a direction.
The city was born in 1849 as an army outpost on a bluff above the Trinity River. When the Texas and Pacific Railway arrived in 1876, the cattle pens became the town's business, and everything Fort Worth still is today comes from that.
The Fort Worth, Texas neighborhoods run from downtown, with its buildings from the early 1900s, to newer areas on the north and west edges, with the river and its trails running through the middle.
How I work Fort Worth
I'm Veronica Yeary, REALTOR® with All City Real Estate DFW. I've worked the whole Dallas-Fort Worth area since 2010, alongside more than 450 families.
I cover all of Fort Worth, which is saying a lot, and every type of property. In a city this size, the first step isn't touring homes. It's shrinking the map.
If you're buying here, we start with your numbers and your real life: where you work, which way you drive and at what time, what you want close by. With that, Fort Worth narrows down to two or three directions and we stop wasting Saturdays. The basics are on buying a home.
If you're selling here, your home goes into the MLS, which sends it on its own to Zillow, Realtor.com, Homes.com, Redfin and hundreds of other brokerages' sites. On top of that it gets professional photography, video or drone depending on the property, its own website, paid ads on Facebook and Instagram, emails to my buyer list, postcards to the homes around it and an open house, with a report every week.
I explain the process and the documents you're going to sign, clearly.
The parts of Fort Worth
The Stockyards are a national historic district, with brick streets, the original cattle pens and a cattle drive twice a day. That's also where you'll find Billy Bob's Texas, the dance hall people from out of town know by name.
The Cultural District puts the Kimbell Art Museum, designed by Louis Kahn, and the Modern Art Museum within a few blocks of each other. Downtown is Sundance Square, with its early 20th century buildings restored instead of torn down.
Around all of that are neighborhoods from every era: older streets with mature trees near downtown, and new construction to the north and west.
Depending on what you need: buying a home in Fort Worth, selling your home in Fort Worth, your first home in Fort Worth, a VA loan in Fort Worth, moving to Fort Worth or what your Fort Worth home is worth.
What kind of home you'll find
Everything fits here, with almost a century between one side of town and another. There are homes from the 1920s and 1930s near downtown, mid-century single-story homes on their own lots, and recent planned communities on the edges.
In a city this big, two homes the same size fifteen minutes apart can be worth very different amounts. An automated online estimate doesn't solve that. The comparables on your own street do, and that's what I do in what your home is worth.
If you're coming from another state or another country, start with moving to Dallas-Fort Worth, where I compare the two sides of the metroplex.
What's nearby
The Trinity Trails follow the river through the city, so you can walk and bike for miles without crossing a major street.
To get around without a car there are two trains: TEXRail and the Trinity Railway Express, which connects to Dallas. Living near a station really changes your day to day, and if that matters to you, we make it a requirement from the start.
Fort Worth sits on the west side of the metroplex, so the comparison I'm asked for most is against Arlington and Dallas. Here are all the cities where I work. To talk about Fort Worth, reach out: call or text 469-441-8890, or email veronica@veronicayeary.com.
Frequently asked questions
Fort Worth is huge. Where do I start?
With your life, not a list of neighborhoods. Where you work, which way you drive and at what time, and what you want close by. With those three answers the city narrows down to two or three directions, and from there it's worth going out to see homes.
Can I get to Dallas without driving?
Yes. The Trinity Railway Express connects Fort Worth to Dallas, and TEXRail covers another part of the area. If you're going to rely on the train, that changes which direction makes sense to search in, so we make it a requirement from the start, not at the end.
What are the Stockyards?
The Stockyards is the national historic district where the cattle pens that built the city stood. It has brick streets and a cattle drive twice a day. It is alive, not a museum, and it surprises people from out of town more than almost anything else.
Will you walk me through the whole process in Fort Worth?
The whole process, start to finish: the conversations, a clear explanation of the process and the documents you're going to sign, and the negotiation.
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