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About Our New Commenting System on CandysDirt: We Heart Facebook
We’ve recently made the change to Facebook comments on our blogs, and we wanted to take a moment to explain why we decided to change the comment format, and how it works.
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Tagged Blogging, Candy Evans, Dallas real estate news, Facebook, Google, house porn, LinkedIn, real estate, Social Media
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Katie Workman Has The Recipe For Dinner Success
What’s harder than being a new mom? Being a new mom and having to answer, “What’s for dinner?” every evening, even when I’m tired and uninspired.
I have a feeling Katie Workman, author of The Mom 100 Cookbook (Workman Publishing, $16.95), was in my spot before. In fact, I am almost certain this very same situation is what spawned this amazing cookbook that is full of kid-friendly recipes that won’t bore adults to death. Continue reading
A Bavarian For Marry’n: 941 Circle In The Woods Best Real Estate Buy in North Texas
Do you REALLY want to be anywhere near Arlington today? We are going to the Cowboys game so I am packing my computer to blog in traffic. If you don’t have tickets to the Cowboys or the World Series, just go north to Fairview and check out a 9,600 Bavarian estate adjoining a 600 acre nature preserve. Trust me, get up there and you won’t believe you are in Kansas anymore!
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The 50 Best Blogs to Read When Getting Into Real Estate
I am honored to say that AccountingDegree.com just named Second Shelters (and yours truly) on it’s list of the 50 Best Blogs to read when getting into Real estate. I am so honored! The list is comprehensive and great — and you’ll soon be seeing it on our newest up coming blog, www.CandysDirt.com!
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The Best Places in America for Second Homes
Barrons is bragging how they called it: the second home market has bottomed, and the rich are out swooping up the bargains. Prices of high-end second homes have sunk, some as low as 40%. And Barrons lists the top second home markets in the US. Sea Island, Georgia was rated number one. Next comes Maui, The Hamptons, Aspen, Martha’s Vineyard, Lake Tahoe, Kiawah Island, S.C., Palm Beach, Pebble Beach, Greater Palm Springs, Sun Valley, Bray’s Island Plantation, Lake Geneva (where I used to go as a Chicago kid), and Ashville, N.C. The Barrons report (not sure if sub. req.) tells why these places are so glorious, and lists average prices like $2.5 to $4 million. With prices and places like these, no wonder readers got ticked off — check the comments!
Posted in Beach Homes, emerging real estate markets, Lake homes, national news stories affecting second homes, Second Shelters
Tagged affordable second home, Andrew Hadley, Beacon Hill, Brays Island Plantation, Candy Evans, Cedar Creek Lake, Flatscreen Televisions, Greater Palm Springs, Kiawah Island Sc, Sea Island Georgia, second home news, where to buy a second home
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House Porn Friday: A Stairway to Heaven, Plus Auto Art Gallery in Montecito, CA
I’m cheating on my house again, but it is totally worth it for this one. Oh my, oh my. I saw this house and it took my breath away. I cannot help my feelings. It was a total Jedediah Leland/Citizen Kane moment: this house is my “girl in the white dress”.¬† I immediately flashed back to Mies Van Der Roh’s Farnsworth House, near where I grew up. But this home is called The Glass Pavilion, designed by Steve Hermann, and it is almost 14,000 square feet! A little big but I am still head over heels in love!
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Ask Candy: Need An Architect for Dallas Tudor Revival
A reader writes:
We are renovating and building up on our 1935 Tudor Rival (or whatever they are called) house in HP.  I was wondering if you have a short list of architects that you would recommend.  We spoke with David Oswalt this week who had worked with a neighbor, who really liked him.  Any thoughts from the Candy Community?
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Tagged Ask Candy, Candy, Candy Evans, Highland Park renovations, List Of Architects, Neighbor, Oswalt
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House Porn! The F Word Squared — Florida Foreclosure With Bay Views, Under $253K!
I almost did not post this foreclosure, and while I have some issues with the kitchen — what in bejesus were they thinking with those wood cabinets, all beach house kitchens need to be white! — and the master bath looks like it might get you a good bash on the head if you get in after a few too many Mojitos, I will fix said issues for that Bay view right from the porch. (Not giving up the Top Shelf.) Mix me up a pitcher of anything with booze in it, rustle up some cheese and Carr’s wafers, and let’s enjoy the sunset. One acre, across from beach, 2420 square feet, three bedrooms, two baths, garage and bonus room with bath. Bank-owned at $252,000.
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My Love Affair With Mama, a.k.a. The RealEstalker
I was in L.A. recently, and all I wanted to do was hang out with Mama, a.k.a. The RealEstalker. I fell in love with Mama the first time she referred to a fancy pants house as a “big-ass” mansion. Laughed so hard I cried and just about wet myself, or maybe I did. But it was more than professional respect: Mama has a way of looking at these homes, these ridiculously huge homes that no one really needs, but, like a God-awful wreck on the freeway when the Medi-copter swoops down, we just have to look. I mean, I have to look, and that is why being with Mama — actually, Mark — is like being with my twin. Or alter-ego. I had this discussion at a holiday par-tee Saturday night in a home I know Mama would rip to shreds: who the hell wants to see Trailer Park House Porn?
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Dallas Real Estate News: Regina Montoya and Paul Coggins Sell Lakewood Home, Move to Preston Hollow
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