Adlene Neely Dealey

Adlene has been a real estate writer for the better half of a decade, but only recently came to CandysDirt.com to write our Wednesday WTF column. Have a doozy of a listing not fit for public consumption? She wants to see it.

The $828K House For People With Money to Burn

By Adlene Neely Dealey / July 8, 2020 /

Have you ever had $800,000 to burn and wish that instead of putting it in a barrel and burning it, you could buy a house that needed burning and burn the house down instead? Well then, we have the house for you. Let’s take a trip to Fresh Meadows, New York, and visit a home…

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We Don’t Even Have Words for This Week’s Wednesday WTF

By Adlene Neely Dealey / July 1, 2020 /

One of the first things my predecessor told me about writing the Wednesday WTF is that you will always have this tiny little bit of panic on Tuesday morning when nothing worthy has crossed your desk, and then, she said, “the benevolent WTF fairies will deliver.” It wasn’t that I didn’t believe the woman who…

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What Day Is It? Totally Over the COVID Life

By Adlene Neely Dealey / June 24, 2020 /
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Remember in March when we all were told to go on ‘git inside because the COVID was coming, and we all bought yarn and bought sourdough starters from the back of minivans at Preston Center and had Very Grand Plans of living that Laura Ingalls Wilder life, complete with the not having any toilet paper?…

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The Midcentury Modern That You Might Find Moving

By Adlene Neely Dealey / June 17, 2020 /

Do you like Midcentury Modern architecture? Do you like cars? Do you like both of those things, and living in houses? Well, we have a thing for you today. See, as we’ve explained before, sometimes the Wednesday WTF is a macular nightmare, and sometimes it’s a cleverly done Midcentury Modern building that has been given…

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The House for Social (And Only Social) Climbing

By Adlene Neely Dealey / June 10, 2020 /

Do you like stairs? Do you like climbing stairs that serve no practical function, except maybe for posing on social media or recreational in-home stairclimbing? We have the house for you. I mean, you’re gonna have to move to North Dakota, but dude, stairs. Stairs for climbing. I should start all of this, however, by…

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