Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
What is the single biggest headache of home ownership? Go ahead and say it out loud: HOME REPAIRS! Home repairs are a given and a constant when you own a home. If you don’t have any home repairs, something is seriously wrong with your home. Because read my lips: every single home has a maintenance…
It’s no secret that the SALT tax, that $10,000 cap on state and local deductions on your federal tax return, hurt high-end real estate. Agent upon agent have told me that owners of homes valued at more than $1 million took a look at their tax returns this year and said, what happened? What happened…
“Carol Reed was a woman who took every hand she was dealt, and played it well. She was bigger than life, had political skills second to none, a loyal friend, and deeply loved Dallas.” This came from her dear friend Chris Heinbaugh, vice president of external affairs at AT&T Performing Arts Center, a former reporter…
Shopping this holiday season in Preston Hollow, at the venerable intersection of Preston Road and Royal Lane, has been quite different this year. The entire southeast and southwest quadrants were flattened by the October 20 EF-3 tornado that hopscotched across this northern stretch of the city. The northwest and northeast quadrants were affected, too, but the…
When our children were small, we lived next door to the best neighbors you could ever wish for. Our kids were almost identical in age, and they often took all of us to Farmersville to visit their grandparents, which was a huge treat because both sets of our children’s grandparents lived far away, in other…
