Candy Evans

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

Dallas Now Has a Plastic Bag Ban for “Single Use” Plastic Grocery Bags & I Heart Lee Kleinman

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

Honestly, the Dallas City Council spent the morning arguing about plastic grocery bags, what City Councilman Dwaine Caraway calls “single use” bags, even though myself and everyone I know uses them over & over to hold garbage or dog doo. We now have joined 150 other U.S. cities as Dallas retailers will have to charge customers…

Mike and Allison Modano Just Put Their Kelsey Square Home on the Market: Parenthood!

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

We know that Mike and his precious, vivacious wife, Allison, are expecting twins — a boy and a girl! — sometime this summer. And they have a big, huge, wonderful 9244 square foot house at 10453 Epping Lane in Kelsey Square, near Strait Lane, on almost 1 full acre of land. Love that area! And…

Real Estate 101 Ask the Teach: Buying Profile of the Average Real Estate Investor May Shock You

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

Remember Kelly Logsdon Rush? Teacher of the Year and my very first Real Estate teacher? Kelly is back with a somewhat regular little segment here on CandysDirt.com called “Ask The Teach”. I know a thing or two about real estate, but Kelly knows about five trillion things, so much, in fact, that she teaches RE…

Dallas City Council to Determine Fate of Plastic Grocery Bags & Maybe Get Us Sued Again?

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

You may have heard that the Dallas City Council is nearing a vote or a discussion or something on what to do about those thin plastic grocery bags some of use whenever we pick up groceries, drugs, sundries, whatever. They call them “one-time use” but I tend to use them a couple times. I don’t…

Breaking: Faisal Halum Departs ABA, Joins Briggs Freeman Sothebys

By Candy Evans / March 25, 2014 /

I caught up with Faisal Halum Monday on his very first day as a Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s senior vice president. Faisal and his assistant, Michael Mahon, left Allie Beth Allman where Faisal was a top producer on the Mathews-Nichols team. But Faisal, who I always think of in terms of luxury high rise real estate sales…