Second Shelters

Want a Second Home? Ron Paul Selling His Lake Jackson, TX Home — FSBOFB

By Candy Evans / April 19, 2011 /

Ron Paul, the feisty Ob/Gyn (aren’t they all?) who represents the 14th Congressional District of Texas, and who may be making a run for a bigger house in D.C. called The White House, is selling his home in Lake Jackson, and doing it apparently without a realtor. Embracing social media, he’s listed his home on…

Dallas Real Estate in 1986: We’ll Never Party Like This Again. Right.

By Candy Evans / April 19, 2011 /

As I think I’ve made clear, I am tired of talk that luxury is dead. This happens, you see, every single time we have an economic downturn. Luxury items get blamed for the shenanigans of the few who screwed it up for all of us, as they sail on down to South America, chanting, let…

Taxes and Second Homes: Will Buying a Second Home Help Lower My Income Taxes?

By Candy Evans / April 19, 2011 /

God, I wish I could say yes, but more likely, just maybe. Or how about, fat chance? I checked with my wonderful CPA firm, Judd, Thomas Smith & Company, who says you may still deduct mortgage interest on a second home and also property taxes but watch it: that alternative minimum tax, a complicated Congressional…

Secret Agent Man is Back! Why Won’t My Realtor Advertise My Home in Print?

By Candy Evans / April 18, 2011 /

Dear Candy: My Realtor is not advertising my home properly, I think. She is refusing to put an ad in the local newspaper and magazines showing it off. She tells me this no longer works, but rather has the home listed on her website. How can a consumer know that an agent is doing every…

At Home With John Wiley Price, Art & Doll Collector

By Candy Evans / April 18, 2011 /

I have always wanted to see the inside of John Wiley Price’s Dallas real estate, his house that is, because when you get inside someone’s real estate acquisitions you get inside them. Now I have a picture, a mental picture, at least. Scott Parks at the Dallas Morning News was lucky enough to get a…