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Wednesday Wishful Thinking: Tour These Dreamy Preston Hollow Estates Today

By Joanna England / May 16, 2012 /

If you are dying to see what Preston Hollow luxury looks like, today’s your day. Two gorgeous Preston Hollow estates are open for tours today, and they are not to be missed!

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Tuesday Two Hundred: Mom Wants Us to Count Our Pennies and Our Blessings for the L Streets: $179,000

By Candy Evans / May 15, 2012 /

Are they now GIVING homes away? From the looks of this, you would think it. Here’s another cutie you could practically put on your Citibank for lots of miles! (Never do that: mortgage rates are too low, credit interest too high. And Doc Compton will beat me!) This cute cute 1292 square foot brick traditional…

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Monday Morning Millionaire for Mother’s Day: Somewhere, Over The Rainbow, in a Golf-Historic Home for LESS THAN A MILLION, In a League of It’s Own!

By Candy Evans / May 14, 2012 /

Did Jo and I enjoy our Mother’s Day? You betcha! I got so caught up with brunch and Mimosas I completely forgot to post the Deep Throat house, where the then-quite-controversial X-rated film took place about a doctor’s home and home medical office (now that’s antiquated!) where he “treated” this woman, played by actress Linda Lovelace, who ah, shall we say, was anatomically challenged.

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Friday Five Hundred: Soft Lakewood Contemporary Reduced, for the Good Guys

By Candy Evans / May 11, 2012 /

I have so been meaning to tell you about this Good Guys house, a creek-view oasis! Looks like my timing was perfect, too, because 3914 Frontier was just reduced from $599,999 to $549,000. First of all, I know the owners and they really ought to be written into the contract for an additional price: you…

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Tuesday Two Hundred: Lochwood Mid-Century Modern Feels Like a Treehouse

By Joanna England / May 8, 2012 /

I am in love. Again.

I fell hard for the little Mid-Century Modern on St. Francis that was snapped up just four days after you saw it here on Candy’s Dirt. It was such a deal, and obviously I wasn’t the only person who felt that way.

So, knowing that someone is going to find this little ditty in Lochwood marketed by Ebby’s Brandon Stewart with three bedrooms, two baths, and 1,686 square feet of awesome, I’m not going to get my hopes up. The romance between me and the clerestory windows, treed lot, and views of a placid creek is doomed from the start.

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