Shelby Skrhak

Shelby is Associate Editor of CandysDirt.com, where she writes and produces 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.

In 1939, This Mockingbird Home Was The Talk of The Town

By Shelby Skrhak / October 20, 2021 /

“Residential Building Booms,” a headline proclaims in this Jan. 1939 edition of the Dallas Morning News. Texas was experiencing a home building boom not seen since 1932, so the full-page “Notes on Construction in Dallas” told new home dreamers of the latest trends in home-building. A screened-in porch on Prospect Ave. near Abrams would be…

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Don’t Let Your Dream Home Become a Nightmare With Mortgage Scams

By Shelby Skrhak / October 15, 2021 /

Scammers are leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic to steal your money, your personal information, or in the case of home mortgage scams, both. While the FBI has seen a significant rise in fraud schemes, the process of buying a home is the latest target for wire transfer fraud. Americans lost $1.2 Billion to imposter scams alone…

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Heritage Oak Cliff Puts New Spin on Its Long-Standing Home Tour With Passport Oak Cliff

By Shelby Skrhak / October 14, 2021 /

When last year’s Heritage Oak Cliff Home Tour was canceled on account of the pandemic, the non-profit neighborhood coalition saw the door on its largest annual fundraiser temporarily close, too. But come Oct. 23-24, the streets of Oak Cliff will come alive again with a new spin on the city’s longest-running home tour fundraiser. From…

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This Far North Dallas Home Wasn’t Always a Looker

By Shelby Skrhak / October 13, 2021 /

Today you see a facade of cool gray painted brick, wide Hardy plank siding, and a bright pop of orange greeting you at the door, but this week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, wasn’t always that way. Turn back the clock to May 2017 when this…

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Another Plano Mall Is On The Path to Redevelopment

By Shelby Skrhak / October 10, 2021 /

Houston developer Triten Real Estate Partners will transform the old Plano Market Square Mall along 75 and Spring Creek Parkway from an outdated 1980s shopping relic into a modern, outdoor-friendly, mixed-use development newly-named Assembly Park. Recently, another well-publicized mall redevelopment project broke ground a few miles south of Plano Market Square at Collin Creek Mall,…

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