California

Naughty Tuesday: Help Me Critique This Home For Cali Friends

By Candy Evans / August 8, 2011 /

This could really get me in water that is hotter than my swimming pool right about now, but a friend in California is selling their home and these are the photos the agent shot. Naturally, I have some strong opinions, which I am going to withold. It’s a lovely contemporary northern Cali home circa 1983…

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Pay $2.5 Million for a Mobile Home, Avoid Real Estate Property Taxes

By Candy Evans / April 20, 2011 /

When my husband teases about getting a mobile home, I threaten divorce. But he may not be so crazy: when you own a mobile home, you own only the home and not the land under it so guess what, no real estate property taxes! Still, you have to rent the land, because the owner has…

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Death of the Vanity Ad: Real Estate Take-Aways from Agent ReBoot: Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / April 14, 2011 /

When you shop for a high-end car, do you pick the salesperson (and buy the car) because he or she had a vanity ad in some glossy magazine or on a billboard? Or do you buy because of the car and dealer? We have bought almost our all cars for years from Park Place because…

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House Candy for a GORGEOUS March Weekend: $100 Investment Yields $15m

By Candy Evans / March 18, 2011 /

It’s too pretty in Dallas to leave this weekend, and half the town’s away on spring break anyhow. I think it feels a bit like Carmel By-the-Sea, CA, which has the best House Porn in the whole wide world. This is Hansel House, aptly named, one of the sprinkling of Victorian and other whimsical homes…

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House Porn Friday: A Stairway to Heaven, Plus Auto Art Gallery in Montecito, CA

By Candy Evans / March 4, 2011 /

I’m cheating on my house again, but it is totally worth it for this one. Oh my, oh my. I saw this house and it took my breath away. I cannot help my feelings. It was a total Jedediah Leland/Citizen Kane moment: this house is my “girl in the white dress”.¬† I immediately flashed back…

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