Candy Evans

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

Fox 4’s Becky Oliver Transitioning From Tough Investigative Report to… Realtor?

By Candy Evans / June 11, 2015 /

No kidding: Becky Oliver is retiring from Fox 4 after 24 years, 33 years total in television. And guess what she plans to do next? Have her Realtor’s license by August. Here’s what she told Ed Bark in Uncle Barky’s Bytes: Oliver, who’s husband, Gerald, is an attorney, notes they’ve been “very active in real estate”…

Unity in McKinney: Officer Eric Casebolt’s Resignation Cools Tempers

By Candy Evans / June 11, 2015 /

The attorney for former McKinney police officer Eric Casebolt says he had had an unusually stressful night before he was called to the Craig Ranch party — dealing with one suicide and a near suicide. He had consoled a young woman whose husband had committed suicide by the pool in front of his family. And…

The Craig Ranch Pool Party’s Effect on McKinney Real Estate: Letter to the Residents

By Candy Evans / June 9, 2015 /

The community of Craig Ranch was developed by David Craig when he bought the first tracts of land for Craig Ranch 15 years ago, at the intersection of State Highway 121 and Custer Road in McKinney. One of the most successful mixed-use developments of its kind, the 2,200-acre master planned community features 2,359 houses, more than…

Officer Eric Casebolt Has Resigned From the McKinney PD

By Candy Evans / June 9, 2015 /

McKinney Pool Party Covered by the New York Times: More Bad Press for Police Out of Suburbia

By Candy Evans / June 9, 2015 /

The headline pretty much sums it up: “Jarring Image of Police’s Use of Force at Texas Pool Party” Then the piece rolls out as many of the facts as we now know — who the organizer was, a 20 year old young woman, that she lives in Craig Ranch, that the party got out of…