Candy Evans

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

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…

Pebble Beach Celebrity Car Auction Fetches More than $60 Million in Second Home Nirvana Location

By Candy Evans / August 22, 2012 /

Last year, about this time, I was in Pebble Beach at the venerable Concours d’Elegance which takes place in the center of second home nirvana: Pebble Beach and Carmel. Family matters kept me away this year, but I hear the crowd was even bigger, better and richer this year: Jay Leno’s Fiat 500 Prima Edizione sold for 10…

Are These Dead Fish in Highland Park Collateral Damage from the West Nile Virus Spraying?

By Candy Evans / August 21, 2012 /

Hundreds of dead fish in Highland Park have washed up near Turtle Creek and some folks are connecting the dead fish to Dallas County’s spraying efforts last week to fight West Nile Virus.

But Sheri Brown at the Highland Park Town Hall says it has nada to do with the spraying, but was caused by the fierce storm we had on Saturday evening, which resulted in electrical outages, flash-flooding, and now, apparently, dead fish.

Sliders of Blue: Would You Put a Private Water Park in Your Backyard?

By Candy Evans / August 21, 2012 /

Is this the private Dallas water park that braces built? And would you even consider putting in a water park in a private home? Texas Drills Down on Medicaid Dental Fraud” (sub. rec.) is a headline in today’s Wall Street Journal. What do they mean by that? Possibly the business practices of people like Richard Malouf who is…