Angela Dick, Realtor

08/31/2026

🏡 DON’T MISS THESE AMAZING OPPORTUNITIES TO TOUR 251 DENTON ROAD IN GORDONVILLE, TEXAS! 🌳

There are several opportunities coming up to see this beautiful property in person!

🍽️ Broker Open House — Tomorrow | 12:00–2:00 PM
Come tour the property, connect with other real estate professionals, and enjoy lunch served during the open house!

🏠 Public Open House — Saturday | 1:00–3:00 PM
🏠 Public Open House — Sunday | 4:00–6:00 PM

This is two homes in one providing multi-generational potential or immediate rental opportunities with a large workshop and added carport space for RV and boat storage within close proximity to Lake Texoma and area golf courses. Located on 4 spacious acres. This is a property you truly need to see for yourself!

📍 251 Denton Road, Gordonville, TX
💰 Offered at $669,000

Bring your clients, bring your friends, or come see if this could be the next place you call home! 🏡❤️

I’d love to see you there!

08/29/2026

✨ What a GREAT week in San Antonio! ✨

It’s an honor to serve on our Greater Texoma Association of Realtors Board as a Director and pursue further leadership by attending the Texas REALTORS® 2026 Shaping Texas Convention. Learning from some of the best and brightest in our industry including fellow REALTORS®, brokers, attorneys, accountants, and business leaders.

🏡 Real estate is an ever-changing industry and staying at the forefront is vital to stay informed, to grow professionally, and ultimately serve my clients at the highest level.

But being a REALTOR® is more than just buying and selling real estate. It’s also important to be politically and civic minded to understand how legislation, public policy, and decisions make a difference at the local, state, and national levels impacting property owners, our communities, and our industry.

I’m grateful for the opportunity to learn, connect, share ideas, and bring this knowledge back home to better serve my clients and community. Here’s to never stop learning and always striving to be better! ❤️🤠

08/29/2026

🏡 MULTI-GENERATIONAL LIVING + INCOME POTENTIAL + 4 ACRES + CLOSE TO LAKE TEXOMA! 🌳🚤

📍 251 Denton Road, Gainesville, TX
💰 $669,000

Looking for a property that gives you room to spread out, work, play, and grow together while potentially generating additional income? This 4-acre property offers incredible multi-generational or investment potential!

✨ PROPERTY HIGHLIGHTS:
🏠 Multi-Generational Potential – The extra square footage provides flexibility for extended family, guests, or creating separate living spaces where everyone can be close while still maintaining privacy.

💰 Potential Rental Income – Depend, the on your plans, additional living space could potentially be used for short-term or long-term leases, creating an opportunity to generate additional income. Think extended family today and rental income tomorrow!

🌳 4 Acres – Plenty of room for outdoor living, hobbies, animals, gardens, recreation, and enjoying the peace and privacy of acreage.

🚤 Close to Lake Texoma – Enjoy boating, fishing, swimming and all the recreation that Lake Texoma has to offer.

⛳ Near Golf Courses – Conveniently located for golf enthusiasts who want easy access to the area's courses.

🔨 Metal Workshop – Perfect for projects, hobbies, woodworking, mechanics, storage, or even a home-based business.

🚐 Carport or Storage for Your Toys – Plenty of covered space for storing an RV, boat, vehicles, or other recreational equipment.
Whether you're looking for a multi-generational family property, a place with rental-income potential, a hobby property, or a Lake Texoma area retreat, 251 Denton Road offers the space and flexibility to make it your own.

🌟 251 Denton Road | Gainesville, TX | $669,000
This is the kind of property where you can live, work, entertain, invest and enjoy the Texas lifestyle all in one place!

📲 Message me today to schedule your private showing today!!

OPEN HOUSE SUN AUG 2nd 2PM-4PM
251 DENTON ROAD GORDONVILLE, TX
$669,000
Designed for flexibility, comfort, accessibility, and multi-generational living. Two separate living quarters under one roof, making it ideal for extended family, spacious living room, well-appointed kitchen with an island, extra-wide hallway meets ADA accessibility standards, second living space functions as a complete home of its own. Outside, an invisible pet fence, beautifully maintained acreage, impressive metal shop, extra large RV-sized garage. Functionality, privacy, and country charm in a setting which has been given meticulous care.

08/29/2026

251 Denton Road, Gordonville Tx

Discover a unique ranch style property designed for flexibility, comfort, accessibility, and multi-generational living. This thoughtfully designed home features two separate living quarters under one roof, making it ideal for extended family, caregivers, guests, or income-producing rental opportunities.
The main living area offers a spacious living room, a well-appointed kitchen with an island and eat-in countertop and an oversized walk-in pantry, a private primary suite, and an ensuite bathroom featuring a safe room closet complete with electricity and ventilation. The extra-wide hallway meets ADA accessibility standards and one secondary bedroom includes a built-in emergency alert system for added peace of mind.
The second living space functions as a complete home of its own, featuring a cozy living room with a wood-burning fireplace, full kitchen, laundry room, primary bedroom with ensuite bath, and an attached office. Whether used as a mother-in-law suite, guest quarters, or rental unit, this separate living area provides exceptional versatility and immediate income potential. Both residences enjoy access to the inviting covered front porch and covered back porches, creating wonderful spaces for relaxing and entertaining while enjoying the scenic surroundings.
Outside, you'll find numerous upgrades and amenities, including an invisible pet fence, customizable smart exterior lighting controlled through a mobile app, and beautifully maintained acreage. The impressive metal shop includes a garage door and an extra large RV-sized garage door along with an accessible ramp leading directly into the home. There is a metal carport for large vehicles, boats, tractors, or ATV's providing additional covered parking. This exceptional property combines accessibility, functionality, privacy, and country charm in a setting which has been given meticulous care. Opportunities like this are rare, so schedule your showing today and experience the possibilities for yourself!

GREAT NEW LISTING w/LAND!
251 DENTON ROAD GORDONVILLE, TX
$669,000

06/25/2026

I love this story! Engineering hollow bricks decreased weight and increased insulation capabilities was designed by Pennsylvania’s first female architect. 

In 1927, a female architect in Pennsylvania filed a patent. The men running American infrastructure rejected it.

The world of early 1920s construction was built on brute force and solid clay. American cities were expanding. Buildings were heavy, damp, and inefficient. A standard clay brick weighed about four and a half pounds. It was completely solid. It absorbed rain and ground moisture, trapping the winter cold and holding the summer heat. A single mason lifted thousands of pounds of dead weight every day, laying wall after wall. Their backs gave out. Their hands blistered.

Anna Keichline understood the weight of a wall. She operated an architectural practice out of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. She worked in a trade that actively tried to keep her out.

Born in 1889. Master woodworker by sixteen. Mechanical engineering student. Cornell architecture graduate. Special Agent for the Military Intelligence Division during World War I. She investigated espionage. She tracked seditious activity. The federal government trusted her with national security.

The war ended. She returned to Bellefonte to design buildings. The local contractors treated her like a trespasser. When she climbed the wooden scaffolding in heavy wool skirts to inspect the framing of her own projects, the foremen rolled their eyes.

The Plaza Theatre was her design. She drafted the local high school. As she watched the masons work on her sites, she noticed a recurring failure in every structure.

The materials were wrong.

Solid brick was a waste of resources. It cost too much to ship on the railroads. It was exhausting to lift. It offered zero thermal protection. Keichline knew that air was a better insulator than solid earth.

She was not new to solving mechanical problems. The space-saving bed for cramped city apartments was her invention. The Keichline Kitchen, a layout engineered to save women from walking miles across their own floors, held her name on the patent. She observed human movement and engineered out the friction.

Now, she looked at the walls.

In her office, she began drafting a new kind of building block.

The material remained the same. She changed the geometry. The sketch showed a clay block that was eight inches long and four inches wide. It looked like a standard brick from the outside, but the inside was hollowed out, leaving thick structural walls and large interior cavities.

She called it the K-Brick.

The math on the paper was undeniable. The hollow design dropped the total weight of the brick by half. It required less raw clay to manufacture, reducing production costs. The interior empty space could be filled with loose insulating material, or left as an air pocket to deaden street noise and stop heat from transferring through the wall.

Keichline took her blueprints to the local brickyards. She expected the manufacturers to see the efficiency.

The owners shook their heads. They looked at the hollow centers and laughed. They told her the blocks would crush under their own weight. Solid walls had kept buildings standing for two hundred years, and they did not need a female architect telling them how to bake mud.

At the time, the American building supply industry was a closed loop. State licensing boards rejected female applicants under the assumption they could not survive the physical rigors of site inspections. Pennsylvania did not register its first female architect until 1920. Keichline was that woman. The material supply chains, the masons' unions, and the brick manufacturers operated on strict precedent. Introducing a new structural form required convincing men who viewed female presence on a job site as a liability.

The rejection was uniform. Nobody would manufacture the block.

Keichline realized that drawings were not enough. Physical proof was required. She spent her own money to have the first run of K-Bricks pressed and fired at a local kiln.

She loaded the red clay blocks into the back of her car. She drove out to active construction sites across the state. She parked in the mud, pulled the prototype blocks from her trunk, and asked to speak to the foremen.

She drove to construction sites. They told her to leave. She mailed the blueprints. They mailed them back. She built the clay prototypes. They refused to test them.

The masons claimed the hollow centers would make the mortar set wrong. She was not allowed to build a test wall on their sites. She had to put the heavy prototypes back in her car and drive home.

She could not force the builders to use her block. So she went over their heads.

The federal government received her paperwork in the mail. It contained structural load calculations, thermal transfer rates, and manufacturing specifications. On September 6, 1927, she secured U.S. Patent No. 1,641,185 for the K-Brick.

The government document proved the physics. The K-Brick was fireproof. It was structurally sound. It reduced shipping weights by fifty percent. It allowed bricklayers to cover twice the surface area in the same amount of time.

The patent was undeniable. The builders still refused to buy it.

This was the ugly reality of the invention. Keichline held the legal rights to a product that could alter American infrastructure, but she could not overcome the cultural wall of the men who bought the supplies. Male architects who used similar hollow-tile concepts in commercial skyscrapers were hailed as visionaries. Keichline, pitching a universal building block for everyday infrastructure, was dismissed as a novelty.

There were no speeches about equality. She simply published the numbers. The contractors saw exactly how much money they were hemorrhaging by shipping solid, heavy bricks on trains. She calculated the labor hours wasted lifting dead weight.

The construction industry cared about its traditions. It cared more about its profit margins.

Slowly, the math forced their hands. A few independent contractors began testing the hollow blocks. The walls did not collapse. The air pockets made the buildings quieter and warmer. The masons finished jobs faster and went home with less pain.

They refused to buy a building block designed by a woman. So she designed one that cost them money to ignore.

The K-Brick broke the psychological monopoly of the solid wall. It proved that hollow construction was superior.

The victory was complicated. As the industry finally accepted the hollow design, they shifted away from baked clay entirely. The market moved toward mass-produced concrete. The men who owned the concrete plants took her hollow-block principle and applied it to cement.

They built an empire on the exact geometry she had proven. She received no royalties from the concrete cinder blocks that soon flooded the market.

Anna Keichline died in 1943. She was fifty-three years old. She did not live to see the postwar building boom that transformed the country.

Today, almost every hospital, high school, and commercial foundation in America is built using hollow masonry blocks. The structural physics, the thermal insulation, and the acoustic deadening are identical to the sketches she carried in the trunk of her car.

Anna Keichline: the woman who rebuilt the American wall.

Source: The Historical Marker Database & The Keichline archives.
Verified via: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Patent 1,641,185), Pennsylvania State University Special Collections.
(Some details summarized for brevity.)

06/11/2026

One thing people may not realize about being a Realtor is that our education never stops!
The real estate market is constantly changing, and so are the contracts, disclosures, regulations, and technology we use to serve our clients. That's why ongoing training and continuing education are such an important part of what we do.
Today was another opportunity to learn, grow, and stay up to date on the latest industry changes so I can better guide my buyers and sellers through the process with confidence.
Whether the market is shifting, interest rates are changing, or new paperwork requirements are introduced, my commitment is to stay informed so I can provide the best possible service to my clients.
Knowledge is power, and in real estate, learning is a lifelong journey! 🏡

06/06/2026

🏡 Another Home SOLD in May! 🎉

Congratulations to my wonderful clients on the purchase of their new home in the beautiful Chalk Hill Phase 2 community in Celina, just north of Celina High School!

This DR Horton home is packed with value and comes complete with:
✅ All appliances included
✅ Gutters
✅ Sprinkler system
✅ Community amenities

The best part is DR Horton is currently offering amazing buyer incentives and attractive interest rates, making now a fantastic time to explore new home opportunities.

If you're thinking about buying a new home, I'd love to help you navigate the process and find the perfect place for you and your family. Whether you're a first-time buyer, relocating, or looking for more space, I'm here to help every step of the way.

📞 Give me a call today and let's find your dream home!

05/22/2026

Sold this beautiful custom home and closing day was officially today! 🎉
📍114 Thoroughbred Street 🏡

This past week the real estate market finally gave us something different to talk about. For months, the headlines have all sounded the same: slow market, cautious buyers, turtle-speed activity.
But this week changed that.
Pending home sales JUMPED 10% year-over-year, reaching the highest level since September 2022 arguably the strongest housing headline we’ve seen all year.

Now, does that mean the market is suddenly “easy” again for sellers? Not even close.

What it DOES reinforce is something we’ve been saying for months: homes that are priced correctly, marketed properly, and positioned well are still selling.
Right now, the difference between a home that sits and a home that sells often comes down to strategy and making sure the seller and listing team are aligned from day one.

Ready to list your property? Give me a call. 903-267-4349.