Dave Buske Realty

10/20/2026

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

10/19/2026

10/18/2026

Doc Holliday came to Texas trying to save his own life, and before he ever reached Tombstone, he was a prize-winning dentist on Elm Street in Dallas.

John Henry Holliday graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872. Then the cough started and the doctor gave him the truth. Tuberculosis. Go west, he was told. Go somewhere dry.

So Doc Holliday came to Dallas.

He set up practice on Elm Street in 1873, and at the Dallas County Fair he and his partner took home awards for their dental work, including one for the best set of artificial teeth. He was not just a dentist. He was a good one.

But the cough kept coming. Patients heard it through the wall and stopped coming back. A man with a contagious lung disease leaning over your open mouth was no comfort. So Doc found another way to pay the rent. He was already good at cards. He got better.

Dallas indicted him for gambling. He traded shots with a saloon keeper and was acquitted. He drifted west, a dying man with a pistol and a deck of cards, until he landed in Fort Griffin, the rough buffalo hide town known as the Flat.

That, by Wyatt Earp's own account, is where Earp first met Doc Holliday. The friendship that began in Texas would end years later in thirty seconds of gunfire at the O.K. Corral.

The O.K. Corral made him famous. But Texas is where he became Doc.

10/17/2026

When arrival becomes an art form.

10/17/2026

🏡 Whitney, TX Weekly Real Estate Update
📅 October 17, 2026 | Dave Buske Realty

Here’s this week’s look at Whitney’s housing market using the latest available public data:

💰 Median sale price: $213,398 over the three months ending September—down 15.3% compared with the same period last year.
⏳ Median days on market: 54.
🔑 Homes sold in September: 10, compared with 12 last September.

🏠 Buyers: Recent comparable sales can help you spot value and make an informed offer.
📍 Sellers: Competitive pricing, strong presentation, and effective marketing remain essential.

Thinking about buying or selling around Whitney or Lake Whitney? Message Dave Buske Realty for a market analysis tailored to your property!🏘💜😎

Source: Redfin, Whitney city market data. Figures reflect the latest reporting periods, not activity from the past seven days. Individual property results vary.

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10/16/2026

Whitney football — October 16, 2026
- Latest result: Whitney’s canceled October 9 home game against Keene is now recorded by MaxPreps as a 2–0 forfeit win—not a played game. Whitney is listed at 6–1 overall, 3–0 in district. Its latest game played remains the 56–42 win at Grandview on October 2. Whitney Wildcats (Whitney, TX) Football 26-27
- Tonight: Away at Palmer, Friday, October 16, at 7 p.m. Central, confirmed on Whitney ISD’s updated schedule. Whitney Independent School District
- Ahead: October 23 is a bye. Whitney hosts Groesbeck October 30 at 7 p.m. for homecoming and senior night. Whitney Independent School District

10/16/2026

🏐💙 GAME DAY, WHITNEY! 💙🏐

Dave Buske Realty is cheering on our Lady Wildcats as they host the Keene Chargers TODAY, Friday, October 16!

📍 Whitney High School
⏰ Varsity: 4:30 p.m.

🔥 Recent reported results include a 3–1 win over Blooming Grove and 3–0 sweeps of Palmer and Maypearl! The October 13 result against Rice hasn’t been posted on MaxPreps yet.

👀 About today’s opponent: Keene pushed Whitney to five sets in their September 22 meeting, with the Lady Wildcats winning 3–2. The Chargers also recently took Palmer and Maypearl to five sets, so Whitney will want to come ready for another battle!

Pack the stands, wear your blue and white, and help cheer our girls to victory! 🙌

10/15/2026

🏡 A kitchen that inspires creativity and feels like home. Would you cook up your next masterpiece in this gorgeous space? 💡

10/14/2026

Freed men and women walked out of the cotton plantations along the Brazos River in the year or two after emancipation, on an old dirt road called San Felipe, carrying almost nothing, headed toward a swampy, flood prone stretch of land along Buffalo Bayou that nobody else in Houston wanted, the only ground that was truly theirs to have.

More than a thousand freed men and women settled that unwanted swampland on the edge of downtown Houston, choosing it precisely because white landowners had no interest in it, and set about building something the city itself refused to help them build. Houston would not pave their streets, would not extend basic services out to their new neighborhood, so the people of what became known as Freedmen's Town simply did it themselves, hand making bricks and laying them down street by street in patterns some historians trace back to African design traditions carried across the ocean in memory alone. They built their own churches, their own schools, including the Gregory School, the very first public school for Black children in the city, and welcomed in their own doctors, lawyers, blacksmiths, and teachers, an entire self sufficient community built from nothing but the freedom Juneteenth had finally delivered to Texas. By 1906, Freedmen's Town housed a full third of Houston's population and had grown into one of the most prosperous Black communities in the American South, earning the name Houston's original Black Wall Street for the businesses, professionals, and institutions packed inside it. Reverend Jack Yates, one of the community's founding fathers, helped lead that growth for decades, his name carried today by the high school that honors him.

Freedmen's Town remains the only intact post Civil War historic district in the country built directly by freed slaves, and community leaders are still working to protect the original hand laid brick streets from disappearing under new development. Texas history holds no better proof of what people can build with nothing but their own hands and their own freedom than the streets a community paved themselves because nobody else would.

10/13/2026

When a house feels like a “Yes,” you will know.