Year: 2024

Only 25 Percent of Homeowners Protest Their Property Tax: Learn How at Free Webinar May 2

By Shelby Skrhak / May 1, 2024 /

There’s a lot we don’t understand about how property tax appraisals work, let alone how to protest the county’s obfuscated appraised value. To help inform homeowners, CandysDirt.com has again teamed with Glenn Goodrich of PropertyTax.io to host a free webinar about protesting your property tax appraisal notice. The online webinar will take place at 10…

South Winnetka Heights Becomes Dallas’ First New Conservation District in 13 Years

By April Towery / May 1, 2024 /

South Winnetka Heights just became the first Dallas conservation district to be approved in more than 13 years.  South Winnetka Heights resident Michael Evans, along with several of his neighbors, spent about three years working with city staff on the proposal that will protect their historic neighborhood from McMansions and incompatible architecture.  The newly minted…

Common Home Inspection Problems You Can Fix Yourself

By Brenda Masse / May 1, 2024 /

When you’ve done as many home inspections as the inspectors at Green Scene Home Inspections have (close to 10,000), a few common themes emerge. People tend to neglect the same kinds of things in their homes, and of course, Mother Nature affects the homes in certain areas in the same sorts of ways. In Upon…

Like a Turducken, This Florida Home is Stuffed With a Helicopter, a Car, And a Plane

By Mimi Perez / May 1, 2024 /

It should come as no surprise that the turducken was created in the South. Only in the South would someone stuff a deboned chicken into a deboned duck and then take that combination and jam it into a deboned turkey. Former football coach and commentator John Madden ripped into one with his bare hands so…

DEA-Led Operation Results in 3 Arrests for Suspected Counterfeit Pill Drug Bust in Plano

By Shelby Skrhak / April 30, 2024 /

A Tuesday morning drug bust in Plano River Bend neighborhood startled neighbors as federal agents found pill pressing materials.