Candy Evans

Dallas Real Estate News to Use: Tasti D Lite Taste Time Today Post MLS Tour, Free Tasti for Realtors

By Candy Evans | October 18, 2011 | Comments Off on Dallas Real Estate News to Use: Tasti D Lite Taste Time Today Post MLS Tour, Free Tasti for Realtors

It’s Tuesday which means its time for our complimentary taste — um, make that freebie — of Tasti-D-Lite from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 8611 Hillcrest Road, Hillcrest and NorthWest Highway intersection.  We are hosting this EVERY Tuesday afternoon in October! Just a little Tasti party to celebrate blogging and CandysDirt. I’ll be there, and can’t think of…

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Former Texas Ranger Rafael Palmeiro Selling Second Home in Pebble Beach, CA to Cover Bankruptcy Debt

By Candy Evans | October 17, 2011 | Comments Off on Former Texas Ranger Rafael Palmeiro Selling Second Home in Pebble Beach, CA to Cover Bankruptcy Debt

The Texas Rangers are going to be world champs for the second year in a row, I feel it in my bones! But Rafael Palmeiro, the Rangers former slugger turned real estate developer, might be wishing he could get back into the game and out of real estate. Palmeiro is now asking creditors in his…

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Val Kilmer Sells Pecos River Ranch in New Mexico to Texas Gas Executive from Midland

By Candy Evans | October 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Val Kilmer Sells Pecos River Ranch in New Mexico to Texas Gas Executive from Midland

This is a sign the market MUST be coming alive, even in slow as molasses Santa Fe: Val Kilmer has finally sold most of his  5,328-acre Pecos River ranch. The deed transfer was filed Sept. 30 with the San Miguel County Clerk’s Office. Kilmer transferred the bulk of the property to Midland residents Benjamin A. Strickling III and…

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Second and Vacation Homes: Coldwell Banker Survey Says One Home is Never Enough With Baby Boomers — And It’s Way Cheaper than a Divorce!

By Candy Evans | October 13, 2011 |

(Above) John Raymond’s Cheese at Calistoga Ranch There has been a lot of chatter out that the Baby Boomers might be the last generation to embrace home ownership. Well, a new study now says what I have long suspected: with Baby Boomers, one is never enough. The Millenials and offspring of the Baby Boomers tend…

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Every Friday Is Wine Tasting Night When You Own a Second Home at Calistoga Ranch

By Candy Evans | October 12, 2011 |

I’m back from an amazing weekend in the beautiful wine country of Northern California at Calistoga Ranch, where you can own a luxury home, with five-star plus service at your beck and call, for under $500,000. It’s fractional home ownership and from the owners I talked to, they wouldn’t have it any other way. $500,000 for…

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The Week Ahead on CandysDirt and SecondShelters: Calistoga, California Here I come

By Candy Evans | October 3, 2011 |

My second home this weekend! As I have told you, I launched CandysDirt.com on July 1, 2011, my very own version of the super duper popular DallasDirt blog I created for D Magazine and kept going, growing for almost four years. CandysDirt (no apostrophe) is ALSO growing by leaps and bounds — please check it out…

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