Second Shelters

Second Home Spotlight: Cinnamon Shore Rocks Dallas at The Marquee Grill, and Guess Who Showed Up To Party?

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2012 /

Jeff Lamkin says he flew a plane across the Texas Gulf coast a few years ago, and about five minutes after he landed plunked a couple million dollars down on Texas beachfront dirt. Jeff is the developer of Cinnamon Shore on Mustang Island near Port Aransas, a beach front development done “Seaside-style” in the new Urbanism mode that is giving buyers an upscale taste of living on the Texas coast: it’s as good, if not better, than Florida’s panhandle coast. (Certainly, it’s much closer!) And, according to Jeff, Texas is a great buy. Maybe, in fact, the ONLY buy.

Help These Grad Students Help Second Home Owners!

By Candy Evans / February 2, 2012 /

If you own a second home, you need to contact Yun, a graduate student in Finance at Rockester Institute of Technology. He and his team are working on a marketing project about second homes, creating products to help second home owners protect their properties. Say an unauthorized person was in your home while you were…

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”).

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…

Cinnamon Shore Is Coming To Dallas: A Texas Second Home Report

By Candy Evans / January 26, 2012 /

The folks from Cinnamon Shore are coming to Dallas on Monday, January 30. Email me if you’d like to come & learn more! One of my favorite vacation home destinations is Cinnamon Shore on Mustang Island in southern Texas, just about an hour south of Corpus Christi, and maybe five miles west of the charming…