Candy Evans
Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.
This is the sad news about trees during a Texas ice storm: some of them cannot handle the weight of the ice. I went out to try and save this little Weeping Willow tree, thinking maybe I could plug in a hairdryer and melt the ice, but I think I would need one the size…
Icemageddon 2013 has left around 240,000 people without power, according to Oncor. The largest numbers of outages are concentrated in Dallas and Collin Counties, they said. And a large number of people in Tarrant, Denton, Ellis and Kaufman counties also do not have power. Freezing rain turned to ice overnight, accumulating on tree limbs and…
I have a thing about Old Preston Hollow, particularly come the holidays. Here’s the thing about 4617 Meadwood and this precious nook of Dallas: every house is perfect, every tree is gnarly and romantic. If older, the home is well kept up and maintained better than San Simeon. If newer, it’s to-die for, of stucco or stone, and large enough to hold your entire family at Christmas plus any entourage. Let’s face it: during the holidays, we shelve any desires to downsize. We want space, we want square footage!
About two months ago, T. Boone Pickens took his stunning Old Preston Hollow $7 million dollar mansion off the market. You can link to my original story here, or if you are lazy (like me) I will re-post it for you. Anyhoo, seems Mr. P. was in love! Over the weekend Alan Peppard reported that…
Recall the pre-Thanksgiving post on one of my lovely knock-out neighbors down the street? It is the Art House on Ricks, and it is a home like no other. Which is why the owner did not present the home for sale in the typical fashion. No no no, she shrewdly made it an event, like…
