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.

If You Dig Late 70s Homes, Tour This Richardson Contemporary This Weekend

By Shelby Skrhak / June 27, 2019 /

Shelly Seltzer of Ebby Halliday 190 Richardson is hosting an open house from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, June 30 for this soft contemporary at 1501 Jennifer Street in Richardson that has soaring ceilings, cool paint tones, and beautiful updates to this 1977-built home.

No Expenses Spared in this French-Inspired Stone Manor Up for Auction Without Reserve

By Shelby Skrhak / June 26, 2019 /

This is the perfect custom home with all the designer touches you would have built yourself if you had a huge corner lot in Preston Hollow and no expenses spared. The 7,990-square-foot home at 6507 Lakehurst Drive, which has four bedrooms, four full baths, and three half-baths, is up for an unbelievable no-reserve auction on…

Pronounced Wox or Wax? This Suburb Sunday Takes Us to Waxahachie

By Shelby Skrhak / June 23, 2019 /

A Wichita Falls radio station once polled some New Yorkers, asking them to pronounce difficult Texas city names. When it came to Waxahachie, they were truly puzzled. (For the record, it’s pronounced wox-a-hatch-e, not wax-a-hatch-e.) Nicknamed the Crape Myrtle Capital of Texas, Waxahachie was founded in August 1850 as the seat of the newly established Ellis…

Prestonwood Estates Contemporary Offers the Best of Dallas with RISD Schools

By Shelby Skrhak / June 22, 2019 /

Simone Jeanes of Allie Beth Allman and Associates has listed this 4,099-square-foot contemporary at 16011 Ranchita Drive in Prestonwood Estates for $799,000, recently dropped $26,000 in price. This four-bedroom, four-bath home in popular Bent Tree is a modern entertainer’s dream, centrally located in a FABulous Dallas neighborhood with Richardson schools.

5 Great Reasons to Call Enchanted Hill Home

By Shelby Skrhak / June 21, 2019 /

Enchanted Hill, located within the master-planned community of Castle Hills in Lewisville, is a guard-gated enclave of estate homes with a 24-hour attendant surrounded by the lush fairways of The Lakes at Castle Hills private country club and golf course. Custom home sites in Enchanted Hill are available from the $300s with custom homes from…