Candy Evans

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

Because I Like to Tease…

By Candy Evans / July 21, 2016 /

An “O” House is a home so fabulous you have to drop whatever you are doing (yeah, even that) or holding, including your nail file, to look! touch that dial!

Snake River Sporting Club Chooses Dallas To Launch Lodging Rental Program at 75m Development

By Candy Evans / July 19, 2016 /

Not Houston, not tech-savvy Austin, but Dallas. This week principles marketing the exclusive Snake River Sporting Club in Jackson, Wyoming, will be in town to introduce the newest lineup in its real estate portfolio: a future homeowner’s lodging program available in late 2017 that could be as many as 62 units when completed. This will allow buyers…

Dallas Now One of Top Ten Overheated Real Estate Markets in the Country

By Candy Evans / July 19, 2016 /

Well this is newsworthy: Dallas beat out LA and Fresno, California, to make it onto Realtor.com’s newest list of the country’s 10 “overheating real estate markets.” This despite the calls last year from experts who said the downturn in oil prices would do us in. Of course the top winners are San Jose and San Francisco,…

Bomb Scare at Nationstar Mortgage in Coppell This AM

By Candy Evans / July 18, 2016 /

As if our lives are not already stressful enough, what with the five Dallas police ambushed and shot on July 7 in downtown Dallas, the terrorist (or whatever) attack in Nice, France that friends of mine were 100 yards from, then three police down in Baton Rouge  yesterday… the poor employees at Nationstar Mortgage in…

How Much Cash to Stash To Buy a Home in Dallas? $25 Every Day for 5 Years

By Candy Evans / July 18, 2016 /

We know the toughest part about BUYING a home is scraping together enough cash for a down payment. Gone are the good old days of no money down mortgages, and you cannot borrow (or are not supposed to borrow) money for a down payment. How does a millennial with college debt and an entry level…