Apartment Leasing

Candy’s Lease of the Week: Lofty Condo in State Thomas Is the Anti-Apartment

By Candy Evans / December 12, 2012 /

From our rental experts over at LocalDwelling.com we find this sleek one bedroom, 1.5 bath, 2 story State Thomas condo.  You won’t find this fun in an apartment! Right in the heart of Uptown you get almost 1200 square feet, concrete floors, stainless appliances, granite counters, maple cabinets, hardwood laminate floors in the master that…

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The Real Estate OMG Department: Does Angela Hunt Really Want DNA Testing on Dallas Turds?

By Candy Evans / November 9, 2012 /

Now I’ve heard everything. At Wednesday’s Dallas City Council meeting, our fearless leaders were actually pitched the idea of creating a citywide program to test every Dallas dog’s DNA in order to cure people who don’t clean up after their pups. The pitch came from a company that runs a dog-poo DNA program in use at the Ilume, called Poo Prints. Love the name. The Ilume, in case you do not know, is a way cool, high end apartment complex on Cedar Springs Road near the Tollway.

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More Park Cities/Preston Hollow Crime, Now Behind the Pink Wall

By Candy Evans / September 11, 2012 /

I own a condo here at The Seville, and my daughter and son-in-law live here as well. Both these gracious condos are located on Averill Way, “Behind the Pink Wall”, an amazingly close-in and usually SAFE neighborhood in Preston Hollow, near Northwest Highway and Preston Road. Tonight my daughter gave me this report: “Just found…

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Love it, Lease it: Need a Home to Rent? Where’s The Best Place to Look?

By Joanna England / September 5, 2012 /

If you want to rent a single-family home, sometimes the best way to find one is to drive around in the neighborhood you want to move to and look for a “For Lease” sign with a hand-written telephone number.

Sure, it’s time consuming and uses a ton of gas, but it’s better than combing through the crappy pictures on Craigslist, right? But what if you’re looking to rent in an area where “For Lease” signs are shunned. What if you don’t have time to tote a kid around while you drive up and down blocks looking for your next lease? What if you’re looking in a very specific area for very specific reasons, such as a school district? Where can you look?

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