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.

This University Park Home on McFarlin Has Flexibility on Flex

By Shelby Skrhak / January 29, 2022 /

It’s always interesting to jump into the proverbial time machine and look at a home’s history. Take our featured Dave Perry-Miller home at 3507 McFarlin Blvd. for example. This 6,499-square-foot home was built in 1980 as a duplex, but the first owners converted it to a single-family detached home in 1986. As such, there are…

For Marjan Wolford, @properties Was a Perfect Match

By Shelby Skrhak / January 26, 2022 /

Marjan Wolford considers herself a matchmaker for Dallas-area buyers and sellers, but when her friend Jerry Mooty began telling her about @properties Dallas, she felt like this new venture could be “the one.” The Dave Perry-Miller agent joins @properties Dallas as Partner and Director of Market Growth. “I was intrigued by @properties mix of upscale…

Walk the Runway at This Warrington Luxe Lease

By Shelby Skrhak / January 26, 2022 /

Welcome to the Warrington, Mr. or Ms. CandysDirt reader. That’s what you’d hear if you live in this week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans. It’s where Marlis Rosetta of David Griffin and Associates has a rare luxury lease on the market, but of course the staff…

Alpine Mountain Ranch & Club in Steamboat Springs Announces 3 New Ranch Homesites Hitting the Market

By Shelby Skrhak / January 25, 2022 /

Luxury homesites in Colorado continue to be popular with affluent buyers seeking wide-open spaces and room for their families to roam, as evidenced by record sales at Alpine Mountain Ranch & Club, a stunning luxury ranch community in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Three new homesites were recently listed for sale offering five-acre homesites within a community…

Grapevine-Based United Development Funding Execs Convicted of Fraud

By Shelby Skrhak / January 23, 2022 /

Four North Texas real estate financing executives have been found guilty on 10 federal counts of fraud. According to evidence presented at trial, executives for Grapevine-based United Development Funding orchestrated a scheme to mislead investors and the SEC about their funds’ performance.  Founded in 2003, UDF used a family of five funds – UDF I,…