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Come Fund Me: An Answer To Funding Infrastructure Victimized By Undertaxing

By Jon Anderson | May 27, 2020 |

Now that restaurants and bars are reopening, so will one of our favorite pastimes. No, not professional sports. I’m talking about complaining about potholes, congestion, and the other acts of simple maintenance our city routinely falls short on. Since Austin is unwilling cease donor brown-nosing and close a 20-year property tax loophole that almost exclusively…

The Missouri Home That Time Forgot

By Adlene Neely Dealey | May 27, 2020 |

So, we all know that CandysDirt.com readers love some time capsules. Homes that are perfectly maintained, never-changed boxes of unfettered design sense from a specific era are fun to look at, for sure. Do you keep that wallpaper? After all, it looks like something you almost ordered for twelvety hundred American dollars two months ago…

The Best Time To Rent In Plano Is Now

By April Towery | May 27, 2020 |

We’re taught as children that there’s a time to laugh and a time to weep, a time to dance and a time to be still. And this four-bedroom home on Westway Court in Plano is a strong reminder that there’s a time to buy and a time to rent.  The spacious two-story home currently features…

Townhome South of Downtown Offers Luxury at Affordable Price Point

By Shelby Skrhak | May 26, 2020 |

This week’s Inwood National Bank Home of the Week is an affordable find we told you about several years ago when Sphinx Development was building the Fiji Townhomes, a community of attractive and affordable single-family homes in North Oak Cliff. Located at Corinth and Cedar Creek in the Cedar Crest neighborhood, the three-bedroom, two and…

Woman Shot, Killed at Home in Apparent Carjacking Near Preston Royal

By Candy Evans | May 26, 2020 |

North Dallas woman shot Monday afternoon in front of her Preston Royal home.

Updated, Open, AND it Has a Pool? An Oak Park Estates Midcentury You Shouldn’t Miss

By Nikki Barringer | May 26, 2020 |

Oak Park Estates is a little neighborhood off Interstate 67, just south of downtown Dallas. It’s hilly, it’s close-knit, and it’s filled with reasonably priced midcentury homes. Downtown is, like, 10 minutes away and Bishop Arts is even less, though good luck getting a parking space — except now, presumably? Though honestly cars are probably…