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.
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…
When last year’s Heritage Oak Cliff Home Tour was canceled on account of the pandemic, the non-profit neighborhood coalition saw the door on its largest annual fundraiser temporarily close, too. But come Oct. 23-24, the streets of Oak Cliff will come alive again with a new spin on the city’s longest-running home tour fundraiser. From…
Today you see a facade of cool gray painted brick, wide Hardy plank siding, and a bright pop of orange greeting you at the door, but this week’s High Caliber Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters of Caliber Home Loans, wasn’t always that way. Turn back the clock to May 2017 when this…
