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.

We Have to Say Something Nice, So This House Has Great Bones

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 11, 2019 /
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As children, we’re all told at least once, that if we can’t say anything nice, we shouldn’t say anything at all. But if I do that today, this column would be woefully short. So here goes: Our Wednesday WTF has really nice bones. I will even go so far as to say that this home…

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Do You Really Gotta Have a Gimmick?

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 4, 2019 /
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In one of my favorite songs from the musical Gypsy, three burlesque dancers instruct the girl who would become Gypsy Rose that, “Kid, you gotta get a gimmick if you wanna get ahead.” And now, it seems everyone in real estate or even the hospitality industry has taken that mantra to heart, to questionable ends.

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Just In Time for Christmas Shopping, A Book Full of WTF

By Adlene Neely Dealey / November 27, 2019 /

Yes, yes we know that purists will object to mentions of Christmas prior to your scheduled tryptophan coma, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t alert friends and family of fans of the Wednesday WTF that there is, indeed, the perfect gift for them. Every week, we look for real estate oddities. Sometimes they’re great…

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The 1980s Contemporary That Was Built in 2010

By Adlene Neely Dealey / November 20, 2019 /
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Our Wednesday WTF this week is something I like to call an “Oh Dear” house, as in, “This house is charming, I see nothing wrong with it, OH DEAR, what is that?” In this case, it’s a contemporary built in 2010, but for all the world looks like a home built in the 1980s. Meet…

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There Is No Place for Your ‘Fake’ Cocaine in a Listing Photo

By Adlene Neely Dealey / November 13, 2019 /

Gather round, children, as Miss Real Estate Manners provides you, gratis, some knowledge that evidently is not readily obvious to some: Cocaine has no place in a real estate listing photo.

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