Second Shelters

If You’ve Been Trying to Reach Me…

By Candy Evans / January 15, 2011 /

¬† I’ve been in NYC all week looking at second homes, even staying in a second home. God, what I have learned about space-use, like this expandable kitchen counter.¬† I have also lost some emails, so please re-send if you have not heard from me!

Housing 2011 Outlook: Can it Get Any Worse?

By Candy Evans / January 13, 2011 /

We hope not. The last two years have been the worst years for¬†real estate since the Great Depression. At yesterday’s General Session here at Inman Connect in NYC, four experts gave us their view of where the market will be going in 2011. Of course, to wake up to a rise in unemployment claims this…

How To Find The Best Real Estate Agent in Town, any Town

By Candy Evans / January 13, 2011 /

You know how it is: we all know the best real estate agents, usually people we have worked with, realtors we trust. In Dallas, we are lucky enough to be loaded with top quality agents. We look at some of those those “best lists” and scratch our heads — who are these people, and did…

Second Homes That Rock: I am in Love With a Toilet

By Candy Evans / January 11, 2011 /

Not just any toilet, but the Toto Neorest. It happens to be in the master bath of the second home I am enjoying here in (c-c-c-cold) New York City. It heats, washes, dries, all but buffs and powders your butt and is self-cleaning. I was more than delighted to see such high-quality fixtures in this…

Second Home Sales are on the Rise!

By Candy Evans / January 10, 2011 /

I will not say I told you so, but I did, and this is the very¬†reason why we are talking today. The Wall Street Journal today reports that sales in vacation communities soared last year to heights not seen since the real estate boom that crashed (and burned) in 2008. (For those of us in…