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.

Cold Temps, Hot Lakes: National Lake Real Estate Company Announces Lakes to Watch in 2023

By Shelby Skrhak / December 30, 2022 /

Pipes and roadways have frozen plus air travel is a mess. Thoughts of sugarplums have passed. Now visions of warmer weather, sunset watching from your boat, and the lake home lifestyle are dancing in your head. The analysts at Lake Homes Realty, the country’s largest lake real estate brokerage, have reviewed more than 50 million…

Lawns of Dallas Offers Tips to Winterize Your Garden

By Shelby Skrhak / December 11, 2022 /

Yes, it was 75 degrees last week and you were wearing shorts, but the official beginning of winter is coming Dec. 21, we promise. The experts at Lawns of Dallas have a few tips to help winterize your lawn and garden. Plant! Winter is the best time to plant new rose bushes! It’s also a…

Darlie Routier Home Is on The Market in Rowlett

By Shelby Skrhak / December 10, 2022 /

Update 1/19: The Darlene Routier home has been temporarily taken off the market. Update 12/18: The home has dropped again in price to $390,000. The home at 5801 Eagle Drive in Rowlett is a member of an exclusive club that no Realtor wants their listing to be a part of. This seemingly idyllic Colonial-style home…

Feel Like the Fete Set in This 1999 McKinney Loft

By Shelby Skrhak / December 7, 2022 /

When it first opened in the year 2000, 1999 McKinney was a fixture in the papers. The late, beloved Alan Peppard often wrote for the Dallas Morning News about the fete set charity events held in the luxury high-rise located at McKinney Avenue and N. Harwood Street. The lofts’ towering ceilings and stunning views of…

The Day Pierce Allman Met Lee Harvey Oswald

By Shelby Skrhak / November 29, 2022 /

The young reporter who may have unwittingly said, “Thank you” to President John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin passed away Friday at the age of 88. Pierce Allman, the father of Dallas real estate and co-founder of Allie Beth Allman & Associates Real Estate, was a newsman for WFAA-Radio that fateful day in Dallas. Allman’s authoritative…