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Don Carter Started the New Year Right, With a Penthouse at The Ritz-Carlton Residences

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

Don Carter sure got 2014 off to a great start by buying the last available penthouse space at the Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Tower I. That would be unit 1802. After selling his stately Georgian mansion at 4000 University in the Park Cities last July, 2013, I was told he was building out a huge…

Dallas Now Has a Plastic Bag Ban for “Single Use” Plastic Grocery Bags & I Heart Lee Kleinman

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

Honestly, the Dallas City Council spent the morning arguing about plastic grocery bags, what City Councilman Dwaine Caraway calls “single use” bags, even though myself and everyone I know uses them over & over to hold garbage or dog doo. We now have joined 150 other U.S. cities as Dallas retailers will have to charge customers…

Dallas Now Has a Plastic Bag Ban for "Single Use" Plastic Grocery Bags & I Heart Lee Kleinman

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

Honestly, the Dallas City Council spent the morning arguing about plastic grocery bags, what City Councilman Dwaine Caraway calls “single use” bags, even though myself and everyone I know uses them over & over to hold garbage or dog doo. We now have joined 150 other U.S. cities as Dallas retailers will have to charge customers…

Real Estate 101 Ask the Teach: Buying Profile of the Average Real Estate Investor May Shock You

By Candy Evans / March 26, 2014 /

Remember Kelly Logsdon Rush? Teacher of the Year and my very first Real Estate teacher? Kelly is back with a somewhat regular little segment here on CandysDirt.com called “Ask The Teach”. I know a thing or two about real estate, but Kelly knows about five trillion things, so much, in fact, that she teaches RE…

Breaking: Faisal Halum Departs ABA, Joins Briggs Freeman Sothebys

By Candy Evans / March 25, 2014 /

I caught up with Faisal Halum Monday on his very first day as a Briggs-Freeman Sotheby’s senior vice president. Faisal and his assistant, Michael Mahon, left Allie Beth Allman where Faisal was a top producer on the Mathews-Nichols team. But Faisal, who I always think of in terms of luxury high rise real estate sales…