Second Shelters

Tuesday Two Hundred: Own a Piece of the Dallas Skyline for Only $199,900

By Candy Evans / March 13, 2012 /

Update 11:54 pm: I’m told the building was completely sold out to a developer who revamped it in 2005. No active foreclosures now, but like life anywhere, you can never say never. This unit at the historic Santa Fe Terminal Building #2 , also known as “SoCo Urban Lofts” at 1122 Jackson #1006, is being billed as the most unique loft…

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Had a Party for Cinnamon Shore, and Guess Who Came on Over? Ebby!

By Candy Evans / February 5, 2012 /

For deets on the best little beachfront community to hit Port Arasas and the Texas coast since, well, forever, click over and check out our second home blog SecondShelters.com (see the handy-dandy link to the right?) And yes, even Ebby Halliday came and dipped her toes in the water!

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Go To Design School With Carleton Varney… At The Greenbrier, How About at the Ritz?

By Candy Evans / January 26, 2012 /

This has to be the greatest thing since, well, designs by Dorothy Draper: Interior designer Carleton Varney, who designed several units here in Dallas, including The Residences at the Ritz Carlton and also at The Stoneleigh Hotel, has also designed furniture, lighting, dinnerware and linens; he has two lines of fabrics, as well as a CD (“Carleton Varney, Music With Style”).

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The Best Little Beachfront Community in Texas Real Estate: Affordable, Accesible Second Homes

By Candy Evans / January 26, 2012 /

We may not have a beach in Dallas, but we do just a few hundred miles south at Cinnamon Shore…

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Dallas Country Club and Dallas Real Estate Taxes: Did You Know DCC Sits on a Greenbelt?

By Candy Evans / October 4, 2011 /

photo by Dallas Morning News David Woo I may have told you that the Dallas Country Club sued the Dallas County Appraisal District earlier this year, claiming that the District has over-valued its lush 118 acres, which, as we all know, are located in a neighborhood of blue chip homes. The case is pending. DCAD put the value of…

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