Candy Evans

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

Speaking of Doo Doo, This $139,000 Home is a STEAL With a $5000 Stainless Steel TOILET!

By Candy Evans / November 14, 2012 /

It’s my mansion and I LOVE it! This is what we call a STEAL! Darling uber contemporary condo at 3883 Turtle Creek Blvd., otherwise known as Twenty-One Turtle Creek Condos, unit 701 is a one-bedroom, one bath, one living area deal — 862 square feet in all. You do get a garage spot, too. The…

Angela Hunt Responds: I Do Not Support a Taxpayer-Funded CSI Lab Devoted to Analyzing Canine Excrement

By Candy Evans / November 14, 2012 /

Aside from her vote on Dallas taxes a few years ago, I knew I’d like Angela Hunt. She took the time to write me that her quote made it sound like she was supporting Poo Prints, the dog-poo DNA program in effect at The Ilume and other Dallas apartments. Here is another thing I like…

What Would the (Purported) Secession of Texas From The U.S. Mean to Texas Real Estate Values?

By Candy Evans / November 13, 2012 /

Update 11/13: UnFair Park has a list of questions to be answered before we secede. Surely you have heard of Micah H., an Arlington resident, who has petitioned the United States of America, technically the newly elected President of the United States, for permission to remove Texas from the rest of the country. In other words, secede, just like I want to do with Preston Hollow. Apparently if he gets 25,000 signatures within 30 days — which he has — this gets serious: a response is required by the White House. (What might President Obama say? How about “hell no!”) In Micah’s words:

The Perfect Love Nest For General Petraeus and Mrs. Broadwell: Tim Burton’s Dallas Version of a Mini Versailles

By Candy Evans / November 13, 2012 /

I don’t know about you, but I am just thoroughly enjoying the military soap opera that keeps unraveling in Washington D.C., North Carolina, and now Tampa, Florida! I guess it’s providing relief from stressing over the election and the Fiscal Cliff and capital gains taxes going up. To be honest, I have always had a…

The Lakewood Home Tour is TODAY! And TOMORROW! And I have Two More Tickets Left….

By Candy Evans / November 10, 2012 /

That’s it, TWO tickets for anyone who can tell me in what year J.J. Long School, pictured here, was built. So much on tap in Lakewood this weekend, you cannot miss Eddie Maestri’s modern farmhouse on Coronado, a spectacular mid century-modern influenced new build on Lake Circle, or a historic Spanish-style Hutsell home right Lakewood…