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’ll Want to See This Northwood Hills Estates Late Midcentury Ranch This Weekend

By Shelby Skrhak / April 15, 2022 /

Only three people have owned this week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank. A Methodist Hospital doctor and his wife who purchased and selected the first lot on this street. A private practice attorney and his interior designer wife. And today’s sellers who fell in love with the home at first…

This Downtown Carrollton Home Is Just As Pretty As It Was The Day It Was Built

By Shelby Skrhak / April 10, 2022 /

This week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, takes us to a lovely little area near historic downtown Carrollton. When this charming cottage was first built in 1946, the Dallas County town boasted nearly 100 percent homeownership. That was at the beginning of a feverish housing boom, when homebuilders like Fox…

This Soft Contemporary Had Me Verifying It Was Actually in Prosper

By Shelby Skrhak / April 9, 2022 /

Sometimes first impressions are dead wrong. When the team at Ebby Halliday Realtors sent us this listing for its sponsored home of the week, I would have bet my house that this soft contemporary was in a cove of similar 80s homes off Abrams in Lake Highlands. But this 2011-built beauty is located in the…

For Lisa Peters, Homeownership Is a Passion Project

By Shelby Skrhak / April 6, 2022 /

I think I can definitively say Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans has her pulse on Dallas real estate. As sponsor of the weekly High Caliber Home of the Week, I’ll email her to ask if she’s got any particular homes or agents to suggest and she always has the best homes to share. Beautiful,…

Steamboat Luxury Ranch Community Offers Curated Events

By Shelby Skrhak / April 3, 2022 /

Alpine Mountain Ranch & Club in Steamboat Springs, Colorado offers owners a luxury ranch community to call home as well as private, curated events to connect owners with the broader community. A few months ago, the team behind the renowned WinterWonderGrass festival teamed up with Alpine Mountain Ranch & Club to host a private, live…