Wednesday WTF

Staging And Professional Pictures Will Make or Break Your Listing

By Adlene Neely Dealey / January 27, 2021 /

We’ve talked about this again, and again, and again — staging and professional pictures will make or break your listing. But you know what else will? Decluttering and cleaning. In fact, if you’re marketing gut jobs to investors, you might even say that you don’t even need 56 photos of your scary, less-than-photogenic house. Post…

Baton Rouge Time Capsule For MidCentury Modern Lovers

By Adlene Neely Dealey / January 13, 2021 /

So, let’s face it — I’ve shown you some really weird stuff in the past few weeks, but today I’m going to redeem myself by showing you a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Midcentury Modern that is pretty much a perfect time capsule. There are a few things I might change, but all in all, this house…

Best of 2020: The $828K House For People With Money to Burn

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 30, 2020 /

Editor’s Note: This year has been a decade, right? So many things happened, lots of things were postponed, and houses continued to sell despite it all. While the CandysDirt.com team takes a hot minute this holiday season to recharge the ol’ Energizers, we’re serving up our very favorite stories from 2020. Enjoy! Adlene: Thanks to the…

Another Day, Another Former Mob House

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 23, 2020 /

So, I bet you think this house looks superordinary. It’s a nice Midcentury Ranch that probably needs a few updates, but it’s a thoroughly ordinary mob house. Nooooothing to see here, right? Hah! Wrong! Are you new here? It’s the Wednesday WTF. OF COURSE THERE IS SOMETHING TO SEE HERE. So, I will admit to…

Iowa FSBO Listing Is Both Honest and Funny

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 2, 2020 /

Sometimes, for some reason, people decide to sell their houses themselves. Having bought and sold plenty of houses, I can tell you that the thought of doing an FSBO makes me want to die a little inside, but for some, I am sure it works to varying degrees of success. And it’s kind of a…