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Fun With the Presidents Streets, Continued: Write Your Own Deed Restrictions on Bushwhacker Drive & House or Guantanamo Cell?

By Candy Evans / February 18, 2014 /

Playing around in the MLS is addicting. I’m supposed to be blogging a feature, but I became fascinated with finding a home on Bush Drive, Street or Road. Lookie what I found. There is a home at 607 Bush Drive in Allen, $175,000 reduced from $179,500. Jeeze they might make a sale if you could…

Romance Week: T. Boone Pickens Weds Toni Brinker at His Mesa Vista Ranch February 14

By Candy Evans / February 16, 2014 /

Mesa Vista -BP Capital These two have got to be the most romantic couple in the world. As you know, Toni Brinker and T. Boone Pickens have been dating, got engaged, and planned a most exclusive wedding for St. Valentine’s Day. The ceremony took place at T. Boone’s Mesa Vista Ranch, a 70,000 acre “Shangri-la”…

Inwood Home of the Week: History, George Clooney, And The Premiere of ‘The Monuments Men’

By Candy Evans / February 12, 2014 /

Planning a trip to Tuscany? Cancel those reservations and stay home. Just buy your Valentine the home with the blue-tiled roof on Turtle Creek for Valentine’s Day and you can live in a lush Italianate environment 24 hours a day, mere minutes from downtown Dallas. (And pizza!) What could be more romantic? No need to send flowers, there are plenty in the lush gardens surrounding 3828 Turtle Creek Drive.

Who needs roses? Smell the live lavender, rose, and hydrangea.

Your gift is a landmark estate owned and lovingly restored by Robert Edsel, a remarkable Dallas oil man turned prolific writer, historian, and now filmmaker, notorious for helping hunt down artifacts and art from World War II.

Inwood Home of the Week: History, George Clooney, And The Premiere of ‘The Monuments Men’

By Candy Evans / February 12, 2014 /

Planning a trip to Tuscany? Cancel those reservations and stay home. Just buy your Valentine the home with the blue-tiled roof on Turtle Creek for Valentine’s Day and you can live in a lush Italianate environment 24 hours a day, mere minutes from downtown Dallas. (And pizza!) What could be more romantic? No need to send flowers, there are plenty in the lush gardens surrounding 3828 Turtle Creek Drive.

Who needs roses? Smell the live lavender, rose, and hydrangea.

Your gift is a landmark estate owned and lovingly restored by Robert Edsel, a remarkable Dallas oil man turned prolific writer, historian, and now filmmaker, notorious for helping hunt down artifacts and art from World War II.

Romance Week: Give Your Valentine a 9700 Square Foot Sanctuary on Five Acres, in Austin

By Candy Evans / February 11, 2014 /

Just two days before Valentine’s Day, on February 12, Casa Santuario, a 9,700 square foot creature of retreat perfection in San Antonio’s Austin’s Tarrytown neighborhood, goes to auction without reserve. That’s — yikes! — tomorrow! (Biting my red fingernails!) That’s right, this carefully constructed, tough-as-the-Alamo, Spanish Colonial -style home will be auctioned to the highest bidder.…