Candy Evans

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

Tommy Vu Files: An Aledo Angel Listed $10K Below Appraisal, Steal of a Deal

By Candy Evans / August 7, 2015 /

Unless you are a devotee of early Saturday Night Live skits, you might be too young to remember a late-night infomercial character named Tom Vu. He was a Vietnamese immigrant with an amazing rags-to-riches story. In his infomercials, a happy, rich-looking Vu stood on a huge yacht, surrounded by babes in bikinis. (Or he was…

Inwood Home of the Week: You Will Just Want to Give This Cool Cottage a Hug

By Candy Evans / August 7, 2015 /

I am so into charming, chic cottages this week. Perhaps it’s the weather — these cottages remind me of Maine and cooler temps. This little Briarwood charmer caught my eye because of the picket-fence appeal, the “adorableness”, and the great landscaping. Lo and behold, turns out the home is owned by a landscape designer. No…

What Can Agents & Sellers Learn From a Las Vegas Whale-Catcher?

By Candy Evans / August 6, 2015 /

You are selling your home, you want to sell it as quickly as possible for as much as possible. How do you find the best possible agent? Get one who knows how to catch a whale! In one of his more entertaining sessions, Brad Iman here at Real Estate Connect 2015 brought in Larry Altschul,…

This Preston Hollow Mediterranean Features Many a Secret Surprise Inside

By Candy Evans / August 6, 2015 /

From the exterior, 6047 Woodland looks like an elegant, Beverly Hills-style stucco Mediterranean of smooth beige with cream accents. The yard is beautifully manicured with an an occasional palm. Typical Preston Hollow manse, right? Yawn. But walk inside, and that’s where the “typical Preston Hollow home” look ends. Right out the door it goes. The…

Lots of Dallas Faces at Inman Real Estate Connect 2015

By Candy Evans / August 6, 2015 /

That’s Marty Marks of Virginia Cook with a contingent of Virgina Cook agents, plus some Dave Perry-Miller agents, Randall Graham marketing director at Ebby Halliday, DD Flynn is here from Berkshire Hathaway, and I’m having drinks tonight with Hanne Sagalowsky and Linda Callicutt from Ebby’s Little White House. Last year Ellen Sedeno was here from…