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.

In The Spirit of Thankfulness, a Darn-Near Perfect MCM

By Adlene Neely Dealey / November 25, 2020 /

I feel like I’ve thrown a lot of weird at you in the past few weeks, but in the spirit of thankfulness, this week’s Wednesday WTF just might make up for it. Meet this darn-near perfect Midcentury Modern in Lake Forest, Washington. And to top it off, this three-bedroom, almost two-bath home is near the…

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This Australian House Has a Surprise You Can’t Unsee

By Adlene Neely Dealey / November 18, 2020 /

We’re all familiar with the concept of a fixer — a house that you intentionally buy knowing you’re going to have to put some money into it — possibly even a lot of money — to make it habitable. But this Australian abode we’ve found this week will require a pacemaker as well. Now, at…

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This Pinellas Park, Florida Home Leaves Us With So Many Questions

By Adlene Neely Dealey / November 11, 2020 /

So, full disclosure, until this week my only exposure to Pinellas Park, Florida, involved their law enforcement. To be clear, I wasn’t locked up or cuffed, but lord, after this story about the hot cops of Pinellas Park, I really contemplated a life of crime for a hot minute. Today’s Wednesday WTF, however, is the…

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Kentucky Listing Puts the What in Wednesday WTF

By Adlene Neely Dealey / November 4, 2020 /

So, now that we’ve crawled out of that conversation pit, can we talk about the rest of my inbox — namely, this very confusing Kentucky listing several readers sent me? First, let me just say that the Redfin link that most of the readers sent me is now just a screenshot of a Borat advertisement,…

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Are Conversation Pits Back? Part Two

By Adlene Neely Dealey / October 28, 2020 /

Frankly, this is the pits — the conversation pits, that is. As we warned you last week with our first installment on the wide world of WTF and conversation pits, this week’s offering is some kind of pit within a pit. We’ll explain in a second. Apartment Therapy has a great rundown of conversation pits…

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