Wednesday WTF

Wednesday WTF: There’s a Bear in the Bathroom

By Bethany Erickson / April 11, 2018 /

Hey, do you want to buy a lodge? A really, really big lodge? What if we told you it’s been on the market since 2015? What if we told you that it was initially listed for $40 million, but had a price reduction last year and can now be yours for a cool 20 million…

Wednesday WTF: Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now, Or Something

By Bethany Erickson / April 4, 2018 /

Most of the time, the Wednesday WTF is a surprise to everyone else at CandysDirt.com. Sometimes someone in our crew will send me one that is perfect, so they’re not so surprised. But sometimes, a listing so special comes along that I sit in Slack and torture people with it before I even write about…

Wednesday WTF: Meet Me At the Five Malls of Uptown Dallas

By Bethany Erickson / March 28, 2018 /

When you work in the world of media for any length of time at all, you will get PR pitches. Some of them are perfect pitches inviting you to check out some product or service that is completely related to what you write about. But sometimes, they are not. Sometimes, they are about busting cheaters…

Wednesday WTF: Every Single One of You Sent Me This Link

By Bethany Erickson / March 21, 2018 /

Social media is a blessing (most of the time). You can talk to your friends. You can keep track of who broke ugly after high school. You can argue with strangers about collusion. And you can also have 100 people simultaneously send you the same home listing because they know part of your job is…

Wednesday WTF: The Brown Chicken, Brown Cow Edition

By Bethany Erickson / March 14, 2018 /

So, dear Wednesday WTF readers, tell me: If a house was absolutely drop-dead gorgeous, filled with every amenity you could dream of, and absolutely in your budget, can you name one thing that would make you decide to walk away from buying it? Maybe a murder, I suppose, but that sort of thing is supposed…