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 week’s Inwood Home of the Week, sponsored by Inwood National Bank, is located in Old Lake Highlands but a look back at a 1955 Dallas Morning News ad gives us a glimpse at the new Lake Highlands Estates. Winding, paved streets with paved alleys, panoramic views, and choice, wooded lots were the selling points…
If you’re a homeowner, building home equity can make a big difference in your future finances. Unlike other large purchases such as cars that lose value over time, homes steadily increase in value when you treat them right. Coppell-based Caliber Home Loans has these tips for building equity in your home, and spoiler alert, one…
The Old Farmers’ Almanac relies on studies of the sun’s hot spots, climatology, and meteorology to make predictions of coming temperatures and precipitation. The Farmers are calling for another unusually cold winter in 2022, as the year calls for a weak La Nina, among other patterns. “For our friends in the southern Great Plains, including Texas and…
“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…
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…
