Shelby Skrhak

Shelby Skrhak is executive editor of CandysDirt.com and producer of the Dallas Dirt podcast. She loves covering estate sales and murder homes, not necessarily related. As a lifelong Dallas native, she's been an Eagle, Charger, Wildcat, and a Comet.

You Are Now Entering Wylie City Limits

By Shelby Skrhak / August 18, 2019 /

“What county is Wylie located in?” Typically I can name off the county pretty easily for most all north Texas cities, but this week’s Suburb Sunday had me stumped. Now I see why. “Wylie is a city and northeastern suburb of Dallas, that was once solely located in Collin County, but now extends into neighboring…

This Grand Prairie Home Has a Jaw-Dropping Master Suite

By Shelby Skrhak / August 17, 2019 /

From the outside of 2322 Sunnyvale Road in Grand Prairie with a wrought-iron and glass door and decorative star at the apex, you’d expect a southern-styled home with Magnolia-inspired rustic decor. But walk inside and your jaw will drop.

Mansfield Manse Is Like a Blank Slate to Create Your Dream Home

By Shelby Skrhak / August 17, 2019 /

Why take a year to build your dream home from scratch when you can turn this fantastically-priced transitionally-styled estate into your own perfect custom home? That’s possible at 8 Woodland Drive in Mansfield, where the sellers are offering a $20,000 remodeling allowance with acceptable offer. Karan Wethington of JP and Associates Burleson has listed this…

This Plano Hunters Glen Home Is Ready for Entertaining, Cooking, and Tonka Trucks

By Shelby Skrhak / August 15, 2019 /

The sellers at 2313 Loch Haven Drive in Plano’s Hunters Glen barely broke-in the glass cooktop in the kitchen before a dream job recruited them out-of-state. (Did you know water from an overfull pot burns a stain on those cooktops? Just me?) Lived in for less than 30 days, the fully remodeled one-story home in…

Suburb Sunday: Before There Was Frisco, There Was Valley Ranch

By Shelby Skrhak / August 11, 2019 /

These NFL pre-season games have us ready for some serious Dallas Cowboys tailgating, but before there were Yeti coolers, there were trusty old Colemans. And before there was Frisco and Arlington, there was Valley Ranch and Irving. For this week’s Suburb Sunday, we’re taking a look at Valley Ranch, the master-planned community in northern Irving…