Weird Real Estate

Wherein We Venture Into the Wednesday WTF Mailbag

By Adlene Neely Dealey / January 15, 2020 /

When my predecessor handed over the reins to this esteemed weekly feature, she warned me that my Internet search history would never recover and that my inbox would become a Wednesday WTF mailbag of mayhem. She was correct. Some inherit jewels, some inherit money, some inherit good or bad genes, and even the wind. I…

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The Lord Is Testing Me With This House Owned by Dr. Phil

By Adlene Neely Dealey / January 8, 2020 /

We love our readers. And fans of the Wednesday WTF are especially ardent and helpful, and send us suggestions. So many of you sent this house that is now on the market, and is owned by one Dr. Phil McGraw, he of the hirsute lip and slightly Texan twang and all the folksy humor.  If…

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We Have to Say Something Nice, So This House Has Great Bones

By Adlene Neely Dealey / December 11, 2019 /
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As children, we’re all told at least once, that if we can’t say anything nice, we shouldn’t say anything at all. But if I do that today, this column would be woefully short. So here goes: Our Wednesday WTF has really nice bones. I will even go so far as to say that this home…

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The 1980s Contemporary That Was Built in 2010

By Adlene Neely Dealey / November 20, 2019 /
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Our Wednesday WTF this week is something I like to call an “Oh Dear” house, as in, “This house is charming, I see nothing wrong with it, OH DEAR, what is that?” In this case, it’s a contemporary built in 2010, but for all the world looks like a home built in the 1980s. Meet…

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There Is No Place for Your ‘Fake’ Cocaine in a Listing Photo

By Adlene Neely Dealey / November 13, 2019 /

Gather round, children, as Miss Real Estate Manners provides you, gratis, some knowledge that evidently is not readily obvious to some: Cocaine has no place in a real estate listing photo.

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