Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
Crusty Jim Schutze of The Dallas Observer wrapped a very long, very sad week in Dallas history with some stuff to be actually positive about. He didn’t come out and say it, but it’s really our real estate market: Burdened as we are by a peculiar past, even hobbled by a certain disconnection from national…
Sometimes Mother Nature is a beast! The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, just re-opened July 13 after shuttering two weeks ago so the resort’s owner, Jim Justice, could provide housing and food to hundreds of local families who lost their homes to recent catastrophic flooding. The hotel also suffered extensive damage to the tennis…
I left Dallas last Thursday morning, a beautiful, hot, sunny day, to land in Reno, Nevada for a long weekend of R&R with my family. My son lives in Silicon Valley and Lake Tahoe is about a four-hour drive for them. We arrived before noon, the western fam arrived at about 5 due to a…
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! typing the name “Angie Barrett” takes me back about ten or so years, to when I had fewer wrinkles, smaller gluts, and Skip Hollandsworth wrote his famous “Angie…
Happy Birthday America! We are so proudly grateful to be Americans today, and so fortunate we live in a country that lets us say pretty much what we want, build (generally) what we want, and encourages home ownership. Our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers gave their youth and in some cases, their lives, to fight to…
