Dallas Real Estate News
We talk a lot about staging and how to make a home look its best, but there’s a proverbial elephant in rooms and hallways across America — that dang ugly attic cord. At the prodding of his family, David Jones set out to get rid of that unsightly cotton cord that plagues homeowners. What he…
A few months ago, my son bought a home in the Peninsula area of San Francisco, home of the priciest real estate in the country. I assumed they were getting a shack, but paying for a mansion. The equivalent of our M Streets homes or 1950’s mid century moderns go for $800,000 plus on the…
This is another installation in the “everything in the $200K range is under contract” saga. Seriously. I cruise MLS on a daily basis, looking for amazing homes to feature here on CandysDirt.com. They have to have a little something special, they have to really catch my eye to make it on here. The problem is,…
We may have breakfast bars in the master, but long ago, before there was air conditioning in the south, people of means did not have kitchens in the main house. I learned this years ago while purchasing a home in San Antonio. Up north, in my freezing native Illinois prairie lands, we wanted those kitchens…
I have a pet peeve: I hate it when I cannot find addresses, be it on commercial buildings or residential homes. One of the first things you do when you market your home for sale is make sure people can damn well FIND it! That means clear numbers somewhere where they can be seen, not…
