Candy Evans

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

John Wiley Price’s Defense Attorney Sued by Feds for $5.3 Million in Unpaid Taxes — Guess Where He Lives? Strait Lane.

By Candy Evans / August 27, 2012 /

But don’t get too excited. Defense attorney John Carney lives on Strait Lane, indeedy, or at least one of his trusts owns a home at 11484 Strait Lane. But I don’t think he’ll exactly be slip sliding away down at Richard Malouf’s Water Pik Park. To be perfectly honest here, Carney’s place is on the…

Ambien Found in Body of Highland Park Man Who Attacked his Family, Then Stabbed Himself to Death

By Candy Evans / August 26, 2012 /

The autopsy of John Rodman Steele, the Highland Park businessman and community leader who attacked his family then stabbed himself to death last July 11, showed traces of a sleeping aid called Ambien — or the ingredient zolpidem, that is found in many sleep aids, including Ambien, in his body. I had heard this from…

Maintaining a Vacation or Second Home: Why a Concierge Service Ought to Come With the Title

By Candy Evans / August 24, 2012 /

As my site’s tagline reads, “you can never have too many homes.” Apparently, many buyers and homeowners agree. The latest Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey from the National Association of Realtors reported that vacation-home sales rose 7 percent in 2011. In all, as I may have told you, vacation-home sales accounted for a healthy…

Richard Malouf Calls the Cops On Me — Candy — for Taking Pics of His Water Park Parts!

By Candy Evans / August 23, 2012 /

No handcuffs yet, I’m still able to blog. While I was touring a gorgeous home in Kessler today, noonish, another Dan Nelson treasure (stay tuned, stay very tuned), Robert Wilonsky at the Dallas Morning News emails me that I’m in trouble: Richard Malouf filed a complaint against me with the Dallas Police Department. Read this…

FHA Now Permits You to Find Down Payment Cash Under the Seat Cushions

By Candy Evans / August 22, 2012 /

Is your money safer today in the stock market or tucked inside your, hopefully, Duxiana mattress? If you answered “mattress,” you’re in luck. (And probably a whole lot richer, unless you bought Apple in 2005.) You can use the money you’ve saved inside the mattress springs — or left in the chair cushions — to help cover…