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Tuesday Two Hundred: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden or a Pool…

By Candy Evans / August 6, 2013 /

I may be a spoiled brat, but I think that for $200,000 ish in Dallas, you should be able to get 3 bedrooms and two baths, give or take a shower or tub in that second bath. That’s one of the things we look at here on CandysDirt.com. I don’t care if a home is…

How They Live: Entertaining (and Eating Around) With Robert Edsel in His Historic Turtle Creek Estate

By Candy Evans / August 6, 2013 /

We sent CD correspondent Bren Underwood to find out if people really eat in these luxury homes! Impromptu cocktail parties, Sunday brunches, formal dinners fit for a king – entertaining friends and family brings tremendous delight to hosts and hostesses. I had the true pleasure of interviewing one of Dallas’ premier hosts recently, acclaimed author and art…

Monday Morning Millionaire: Luxury Living for the Golf Lover, Wine Lover, Foodie or Just Four Seasons Fanatic

By Candy Evans / August 6, 2013 /

Well, this is the “it’s August everyone’s on vaca” edition of MMM. It comes to you straight from Las Colinas and the Four Season’s TPC, where you can live like a billionaire for a couple million. Seriously, you would be surprised at the smart, serious wealth out here. It’s a zip to D/FW or your…

Vacation Home Crush: Best New Beach Development in the Western Hemisphere: Baha Mar

By Candy Evans / August 5, 2013 /

Do we really want to be here? Just posted the dirt on my newest vacation home crush, Baha Mar, over on SecondShelters.com. Seriously, you have to see this place: near perfect climate, clear and warm water, pristine beaches, 5% of the world’s coral reef and the most laid-back, friendly people ever. Of course they are,…

The Largest Second Home Development in the Western Hemisphere Closer to Completion: Baha Mar, the Bahamas

By Candy Evans / August 2, 2013 /

It’s the most talked about second home resort in the western world, located on a shimmering Bahamian beach dubbed the new French Riviera. Baha Mar is a $3.5 BILLION mega-resort under construction now in Nassau, The Bahamas. Thousands of construction crews are working around the clock, working so diligently they add one full story to the…