Candy Evans

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

The Creative HandyWoman: How to Fix a Leak With a Sanitary Napkin!

By Candy Evans / March 30, 2013 /

Had a little leak upstairs today, thankfully our electronic water bugs alerted us. Came home to inspect and found a copper pipe feeding cold water into our new Eternal Hybrid Hot Water heater had a jet stream of water escaping right from the copper! It must have been spewing for a week or so, as…

The Glow of Real Estate: Do You Have It? How to get It!

By Candy Evans / March 29, 2013 /

I have The Glow of Real Estate. It happens whenever I talk about Real Estate, marketing on the internet, and how hot our market is. It also helps to be standing in front of a group of my fave Realtors in front of a great big screen with CandysDirt.com projecting on a projector. The Glow…

Dallas Real Estate Market Almost Back to Golden Days. Almost. Sigh.

By Candy Evans / March 28, 2013 /

So D’Ann Petersen told Sheryl Jean at the Dallas Morning News that home prices are rising so fast in North Texas, she’s tempted to sell her house. D’Ann Petersen is a business economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. My question for her is this: if you sell, where would you go? Inventory is so…

Floor Me: This Surface Has Your Footprints All Over It…

By Candy Evans / March 27, 2013 /

That’s because it’s made of sand. Sure, I found it at the delectable Albany in Nassau, but what a great floor for a family room! Details over on SecondShelters.com…

The Floor Report: How About Floors Made of Sand in Your Second Home?

By Candy Evans / March 27, 2013 /

I saw these coolio floors in a restaurant down in Nassau, The Bahamas, where we visited second homes this past weekend. This is the floor at a beach club restaurant called, appropriately, “Footprints”. Yes, the entire floor is made of sand. No, they don’t vacuum it but rather sweep and rake it nightly. The restaurant is adjacent…