Candy Evans

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

Tuesday Two Hundred: Mom Wants Us to Count Our Pennies and Our Blessings for the L Streets: $179,000

By Candy Evans / May 15, 2012 /

Are they now GIVING homes away? From the looks of this, you would think it. Here’s another cutie you could practically put on your Citibank for lots of miles! (Never do that: mortgage rates are too low, credit interest too high. And Doc Compton will beat me!) This cute cute 1292 square foot brick traditional…

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Monday Morning Millionaire for Mother’s Day: Somewhere, Over The Rainbow, in a Golf-Historic Home for LESS THAN A MILLION, In a League of It’s Own!

By Candy Evans / May 14, 2012 /

Did Jo and I enjoy our Mother’s Day? You betcha! I got so caught up with brunch and Mimosas I completely forgot to post the Deep Throat house, where the then-quite-controversial X-rated film took place about a doctor’s home and home medical office (now that’s antiquated!) where he “treated” this woman, played by actress Linda Lovelace, who ah, shall we say, was anatomically challenged.

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Monday Morning Millionaire For a Gadzillionaire: Greg Brady’s $7 Million Azure Penthouse gets Picked Up by Forbes

By Candy Evans / May 14, 2012 /

I first wrote about this penthouse-to-end-all-penthouses last summer, when Greg Brady, former president of i-2 Technology once (and probably still) the Mark Zuckerberg of supply-chain management, was offering not just a BMW Z8 in at closing but a week on his yacht, the Noble House, to whoever would hand over eight million dolla — actually,…

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Has Anyone Heard From Their Appraisal District? CandysDirt Tax Doctor is IN

By Candy Evans / May 14, 2012 /

Troy Aikman has sold part of his dirt, the pool-cabana-sport court part, and we are hearing tales of multiple offers and homes being snapped up in 4 to 5 days, some not even in MLS. I am posting a home soon built by Mark Danuser that sold as a hip pocket in less than a…

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Have You Ever Put Lipstick on a Pig? We Know You Have, So We Want You to be Agent X

By Candy Evans / May 12, 2012 /

Have you turned trash into cash? Have you transformed a stinker into a stunner? Have you overcome impossible odds in dealing with REO properties? If so, you could be Housingwire Magazine’s very first AGENT X, a true REO superstar. And HURRY! Bargain hotel registration ends May 15! We want to hear stories of personal triumph, in…

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