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.

Best of 2020: The $828K House For People With Money to Burn

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 30, 2020 /

Editor’s Note: This year has been a decade, right? So many things happened, lots of things were postponed, and houses continued to sell despite it all. While the CandysDirt.com team takes a hot minute this holiday season to recharge the ol’ Energizers, we’re serving up our very favorite stories from 2020. Enjoy! Adlene: Thanks to the…

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Another Day, Another Former Mob House

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 23, 2020 /

So, I bet you think this house looks superordinary. It’s a nice Midcentury Ranch that probably needs a few updates, but it’s a thoroughly ordinary mob house. Nooooothing to see here, right? Hah! Wrong! Are you new here? It’s the Wednesday WTF. OF COURSE THERE IS SOMETHING TO SEE HERE. So, I will admit to…

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This Apartment Deserves Some Discussion

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 16, 2020 /

Normally, the genesis for the Wednesday WTF is not one short video clip of an apartment, but instead a whole house. But these are not normal times, and I need to share what I saw this week so that we can all sit and marinate in the WTFery that has been perpetrated on this multi-family…

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This Purple Passion Pit Is From ‘Another Dimension’

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 9, 2020 /

From the Wednesday WTF mailbag comes this week’s offering — something we’re calling the Purple Passion Pit for reasons that will be completely obvious very soon. The Fort Wayne, Indiana, home built in 1975 may have not seen an update since then. The listing uh, employs some purple prose, if you will, to sell the…

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Iowa FSBO Listing Is Both Honest and Funny

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 2, 2020 /

Sometimes, for some reason, people decide to sell their houses themselves. Having bought and sold plenty of houses, I can tell you that the thought of doing an FSBO makes me want to die a little inside, but for some, I am sure it works to varying degrees of success. And it’s kind of a…

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