Real Deal Sober Living

About Real Deal Sober Living

Real Deal Sober Living is a sober living operator in Dallas, Texas, running men's and women's recovery homes across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It also operates outpatient addiction treatment under the Real Deal Recovery name, which makes it one of the few Texas recovery housing providers that runs the clinical side and the housing side as one organization.

A Texas Sober Living Operator With Treatment Attached

Most recovery housing providers are landlords with rules. This one is a treatment company that also houses people. The difference shows up in how a resident moves through the system: someone can enter at a higher level of clinical care, step down through outpatient groups, and stay at the same address the whole time. Scheduling conflicts between a group session and a house obligation get settled by one party. The trade is that the housing and the clinical record sit under one organization, and anyone who wants a therapist entirely independent of their landlord should say so at intake.

Real Deal Sober Homes Across the Dallas Area

The operator's North Texas houses run from Plano and Richardson down through Farmers Branch into Dallas itself:

• A men's house on Burnhill Drive in Plano.
• A men's house on Lakestream Drive in Plano.
• A men's house at 757 James Drive in Richardson.
• A men's house at 13375 Glenside Drive in Farmers Branch.
• A men's house on Sunridge Trail in northeast Dallas.
• A men's house in Preston Hollow, in northwest Dallas.
• Two women's houses in central Dallas.
• A women's house in Dallas run under the Trademark name.

The cluster is tight, and that has a practical effect. A resident moving between houses keeps the same city, the same DART lines, the same job and the same outpatient provider. The operator also publishes addresses in San Antonio, Austin and Garland, so a resident whose work or family pulls them out of the Metroplex can sometimes stay inside the same organization.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Kept Separate

Every house is single-gender, and the operator runs men's and women's residences as separate households at separate addresses. That decision is made at the house level, which means rules, meetings and shared space are written for one population and nobody is the only man or the only woman in a building. Women's beds are the scarcer half of the North Texas market, and an operator running several women's addresses in one county has more room to place someone quickly than a single house does.

What $500 a Month Buys From This Recovery Housing Provider

The operator publishes housing at $500 a month. A published number is useful for a reason beyond the figure itself: it means an applicant is not walking into an open-ended negotiation while in the worst bargaining position of their life. What the charge covers, how it is billed, and what a deposit runs are questions for intake. So is what happens when a resident loses a job in the second month, which is the moment most sober living arrangements are actually tested.

One Application Across Several Recovery Homes

Applications go through Real Deal Sober Living itself, and that is the main argument for choosing a multi-house operator. A man applying in Collin County is considered for more than one address. A woman applying in Dallas is considered for more than one house. If the fit turns out wrong after move-in, a transfer is a conversation with people who already know the resident, and the expectations travel with them.

Texas Certification and Recovery Housing Standards

Texas neither licenses nor certifies recovery residences. The state's health agency points the public toward TROHN, the Texas Recovery Oriented Housing Network and the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Certification through it is voluntary, and since 2023 the state has required it only of recovery housing that accepts state funds, grants or referrals. Most privately funded Texas sober homes fall outside that rule. The four commitments certification carries, a written ethics code, fee and rule disclosure before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and an external complaint process, are worth asking any operator to produce.

Who These Texas Sober Homes Are For

The houses suit adults leaving detox, residential treatment or custody who need a structured address and daily accountability without clinical supervision in the building. Anyone needing medical monitoring around the clock belongs in a licensed facility first. Ask the operator how long it has run housing in North Texas, how many people share a bedroom, what the curfew and testing schedule are, how the housing connects to its outpatient program, and how a complaint gets escalated past a house manager.