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.

A Casa Linda Highlands Home That’s (Almost) Worlds Apart

By Shelby Skrhak / April 26, 2023 /

You know how some parts of Dallas feel like their own little world? This week’s Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Dallas mortgage broker Lisa Peters of Cardinal Financial, takes us to a 1950-built home in an East Dallas neighborhood that almost was its own town. Sort of. A Feb. 20, 1945 Dallas Morning…

The Prestonwood Estates Home That’s Been Renovated With a Magic Door

By Shelby Skrhak / April 19, 2023 /

I always get excited when I see Loren Hall’s name next to a listing because I know it’s a guarantee of greatness, but how about a little magic? This week’s Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Dallas mortgage broker Lisa Peters of Cardinal Financial, does not disappoint as it takes us to one of…

Day Trip Idea: Visit the Ennis Bluebonnet Trails Festival Today

By Shelby Skrhak / April 16, 2023 /

Type 100 N Dallas St. into your Google Maps and hit up the Buc-ee’s for Beaver Nuggets on the way because we’re going on a road trip to the Ennis Bluebonnet Trails and Festival TODAY. The annual springtime event showcases our state flower of Texas, the bluebonnet, in its full showy bloom. Day trippers across…

Day Trip Idea: Visit the Ennis Bluebonnet Trails Festival Today

By Shelby Skrhak / April 16, 2023 /

Type 100 N Dallas St. into your Google Maps and hit up the Buc-ee’s for Beaver Nuggets on the way because we’re going on a road trip to the Ennis Bluebonnet Trails and Festival TODAY. The annual springtime event showcases our state flower of Texas, the bluebonnet, in its full showy bloom.  Day trippers across the state…

Dallas County Appraisals Will Be Late, Deadline Pushed Back

By Shelby Skrhak / April 13, 2023 /

January 2023’s catastrophic cyberattack on the Dallas Central Appraisal District is still wreaking havoc as Dallas homeowners won’t receive their property tax appraisals by April 15. Dallas County expects to send its appraised value notifications a week later — April 21, instead of the typical notice date of April 15. That means Dallas County homeowners’…