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About My Congressman, Pete Sessions’ Sweetheart $1,000,000 Mortgage Loan Deal: I’m Pissed

By Candy Evans / January 20, 2012 /

We are in the process of refinancing and it has been hell. So you can imagine my surprise yesterday when I learned that my very own Congressman, Pete Sessions, along with three other members of Congress, is under investigation for the favorable rates they received from Countrywide Financial Corp., which was a poster child for sub-prime lending. The…

Where Yu Darvish Will Buy: Yu + $60 Million = Strait Lane, Beverly Drive, Turtle Creek, Phil Romano’s?

By Candy Evans / January 19, 2012 /

Are you still reeling from the news that Yu Darvish signed for six years with the Texas Rangers to a tune of about ten million per year? Plus he just got $51.7 million (Update: his home team actually got that cash) just to negotiate. I know, crazy world. Insane. But here’s what I’m thinking: he’s…

What’s Going On Over at 3816 Turtle Creek? Sizzle & Once Again, Splish Splash in the Foyer

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2012 /

3816 Turtle Creek is now owned by the beautiful Leigh Bailey. Everyone knew it as the “Party House” before she bought it, mostly because the owner was a bachelor who liked to have fun. The home’s history is like writing a book on Dallas real estate agents: absolutely everyone in town had the listing. Built on .7…

When They Are Not at the W, Here’s Khloe and Lamar’s Starter Home in LA

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2012 /

According to my friend Mama at the Real Estalker, Khloe and Lamar have a really nice crib back in LA. In fact, their neighborhood, Tarzana, reminds me of our Vaquero. They have an 8,347 square foot “mock-Med (mc)mansion in a gated enclave in hot as Hades”, says Mama. It’s also very suburban, gated, and filled with…

Albert Nobbs Is a Real Estate Story: Putting on the Ritz With Glenn Close in Fort Worth

By Candy Evans / January 9, 2012 /

Albert Nobbs is the tale of a woman posing as a man in 19th-century Ireland, and it is an amazing, incredible story of humanity: how cruel we can be, how we will do anything including totally losing our sense of self in order to survive. Last night we were treated to a private premiere of the movie in Fort Worth…