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North Dallas Hoarders: With 46 Animals Trapped in a Feces-Filled Home, How Could Neighbors Not Notice?

By Joanna England | June 20, 2013 |

Stories like this give my gag reflex a workout. We at CandysDirt.com are big fans of animals, so when we hear about this kind of thing our hearts just break.

Word comes from crackerjack reporter Eric Nicholson that Dallas Animal Services have seized 46 dogs and cats from a feces-filled North Dallas home. The animals were in various states of distress. Sounds like a classic case of animal hoarding to me.

Residential or Retail? What Will The Rise of The Cottage Industry Mean For Neighborhoods?

By Joanna England | June 20, 2013 |

Let me tell you, folks, working from home is awesome. Sometimes I don’t change out of my pajamas until I have to leave the house, which can often be sometime in the afternoon, guys. I thank my lucky stars for this career option, which has made being a mother so much easier. But while I…

Bloomberg Pays Dallas The Ultimate Compliment, Says Our Fair City's Real Estate Market is "Best Performing"

By Joanna England | June 20, 2013 |

Holy crown moulding, Batman! Can you believe this? Bloomberg News just published a story saying that of the top 20 housing markets in the good ‘ol US of A, Dallas performs better than every single one of them! Since the loud pop of the national housing bubble bursting, Dallas has recovered and gone on to…

Bloomberg Pays Dallas The Ultimate Compliment, Says Our Fair City’s Real Estate Market is “Best Performing”

By Joanna England | June 20, 2013 |

Holy crown moulding, Batman! Can you believe this? Bloomberg News just published a story saying that of the top 20 housing markets in the good ‘ol US of A, Dallas performs better than every single one of them! Since the loud pop of the national housing bubble bursting, Dallas has recovered and gone on to…

Thursday Three Hundred: Lake Highlands Home Shows The Value in a Good Real Estate Photographer

By Joanna England | June 20, 2013 |

One of my biggest pet peeves is seeing homes listed for more than $100,000 that have horrible photos accompanying them. Sometimes they look like they were taking with an iPhone while the person was shakily balancing a clipboard with one hand. Some are so horribly out of focus all you can see is perhaps a…

Awful Lot of Sex (and Other Big Things) Going On in Some Dallas Neighborhoods…

By Candy Evans | June 20, 2013 |

Sometimes you need to know interesting things about the neighborhoods you choose to live in. Let’s take The Park Cities and Preston Hollow, and what goes on behind closed doors in Preston Center, where both communities ah, shall we say, shop. We get this hysterical story from Eric Nicholson at The Dallas Observer. In one…