Candy Evans

California’s Death Wish: Texas Says, Here’s a Knife

By Candy Evans | November 17, 2010 | Comments Off on California’s Death Wish: Texas Says, Here’s a Knife

More beating on surfin’ dudesville. Joel Kotkin, who was in Dallas last Friday, is on his Texas kick again and I just love it. In fact, I’ve offered to help him find a house in Texas and just move in. This time he’s talking about the political and social and plain insane suicide Californians dealt…

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Dallas House Porn: Still So Friggin’ In Love With This House

By Candy Evans | November 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Dallas House Porn: Still So Friggin’ In Love With This House

And I see that 3601 Euclid is still on the market. $4,995,000. Dang, didn’t I write about it last year or early spring? I am so in love with this house. I would have and hold it forever and tiptoe on those glass floors with a bottle of Windex by my side. Becky, holler at…

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Dallas Real Estate News: A Sam’s Club or West Village at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway?

By Candy Evans | November 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Dallas Real Estate News: A Sam’s Club or West Village at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway?

Kidding. Sort of. The folks who live near those 42 vacant acres at Central and Walnut Hill are going to be tripping over ‘dozers and cement trucks now that a Missouri investor has snapped up the land and created a new chapter for Dallas real estate. But the question is, how much did he pay…

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HOUSE PORN: $795K, 1.5 Miles From the Beach

By Candy Evans | November 16, 2010 | Comments Off on HOUSE PORN: $795K, 1.5 Miles From the Beach

You’ve gotta love this: the house is advertised at $795K. The blurb says “owner will take between $795,000 and $875,000.” OK, somebody slap me — who is really going to come in at $875,000 when they print that? Santa Clause? This is Carlsbad West, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2738 square feet, re-done, 1.5 mile walk…

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HOUSE PORN: We Love the “F” Word When It’s a San Diego Foreclosure!

By Candy Evans | November 16, 2010 | Comments Off on HOUSE PORN: We Love the “F” Word When It’s a San Diego Foreclosure!

I LOVE San Diego. It has the perfect climate, best beaches, and friendliest people ever. I found folks who live in San Diego way friendlier — and less crunchy — than the folks of Northern Cali, though I love them, too. San Diego is not so Nancy Pelosi/ crunchy/granola; it appeals to my inner beach…

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Val Kilmer’s Santa Fe Getaway: Perfect Dallas Second Home

By Candy Evans | November 15, 2010 |

You know that Santa Fe is practically a bedroom community of Dallas. Well, here’s your chance to own a bedroom on the Pecos River minutes from downtown Santa Fe. Actor Val Kilmer — as in Batman Returns, etc. — wanted to use his 6,000 acre Pecos River Ranch in New Mexico as a sustainable, green…

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