Celebrity Homes

Second Homes Decompress: How To Manage Two Vacation Homes and a Primary Residence

By Candy Evans / January 8, 2014 /

I ran into a friend over the holidays right about the time I was mailing off my water bill, frantically. Seems I had switched from paper to electronic billing, but then the emails never arrived, I got busy, and yes, I faced the holidays with a termination letter from Dallas Water. One of our refrigerators broke down and defrosted because power surges during the ice storm blew the computer panel. Just got the dryer repaired, then the pool heater broke. Our friend has a couple homes he has to maintain, and commiserated: how do you manage to keep up all your homes, I asked?

“It’s almost a full-time job,” he said. “You have these systems — heat, A/C, the pool — and at any given time one or another can go out. That’s why you have multiples.”

Dallas Real Estate Agents Kick It Up at Fiscus-Ceron Manhattan Wedding, as Dallas & Houston Unite

By Candy Evans / January 7, 2014 /

Who in the world would Dallas premier party planner Todd Fiscus trust to plan his own wedding? Try New York event designer Marcy Blum who produced a fabulous, fantastic, and totally over-the-top event for Fiscus as he wed Houston society hair stylist Ceron at The Glasshouses in the Chelsea Arts Tower over New Years. A Lone Star contingent…

3715 Oriole: "Dont Show and Then Complain of the Mess. Were telling You Up Front – – This House is a Mess"

By Candy Evans / January 7, 2014 /

You know my favorite saying in real estate — “you cannot make this $#@T up!” Well, here is but one more example. Honestly, I am torn between thinking this agent is the freshest thing to hit real estate since the lockbox or wondering if she is a Real Estate num nuts. I would love to…

3715 Oriole: “Dont Show and Then Complain of the Mess. Were telling You Up Front – – This House is a Mess”

By Candy Evans / January 7, 2014 /

You know my favorite saying in real estate — “you cannot make this $#@T up!” Well, here is but one more example. Honestly, I am torn between thinking this agent is the freshest thing to hit real estate since the lockbox or wondering if she is a Real Estate num nuts. I would love to…

Warm Up to This: Jaap Van Zweden's Former Ritz Condo Snapped Up by Miami Heat's Chris Bosh for $3 Million

By Candy Evans / January 6, 2014 /

Why did Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh buy a 4,257 square foot unity at the Ritz Residences I? Maybe for his beautiful former model wife? She knows you can never be too thin, too rich or have too many homes. This sky-castle is a traditional contrast to what the couple has in Miami — an ultramodern compound in…