Candy Evans

Is This Really the Best Time to Buy a House in Dallas? Turn Your Dial to 1160 am Saturday Morning!

By Candy Evans | April 21, 2011 | Comments Off on Is This Really the Best Time to Buy a House in Dallas? Turn Your Dial to 1160 am Saturday Morning!

Kind of psyched to be on the radio airwaves with the one and only Ron Schultz of Reliance Mortgage this Saturday, 11:00 to 12 noon, radio 1160 am to talk real estate for a whole hour! Just so happens some celebrity scoop is coming down the pike and if you listen in to Radio Reliance…

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Your Worst Vacation Home Nightmare: 160 Homes Destroyed in Possum Kingdom Lake

By Candy Evans | April 21, 2011 |

The team of federal firefighters and officials from several U.S. agencies has joined local forces to battle that North Texas blaze that has burned nearly 150,000 acres over in Possum Kingdom, about 70 miles west of Fort Worth. About 160 homes have been destroyed since the fire started a week ago, according to authorities. The…

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House Candy for Holy Week: Live in a Church!

By Candy Evans | April 21, 2011 |

Honestly, only in Texas. If you are still house hunting this week, you’ll get an early seat at church Sunday if you buy this house: 5601 East Side Avenue. Yep, it’s a church all right, the St. John’s United Methodist Church transformed into a pretty darn big single family home. Location, Junius Heights, not exactly…

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Pay $2.5 Million for a Mobile Home, Avoid Real Estate Property Taxes

By Candy Evans | April 20, 2011 |

When my husband teases about getting a mobile home, I threaten divorce. But he may not be so crazy: when you own a mobile home, you own only the home and not the land under it so guess what, no real estate property taxes! Still, you have to rent the land, because the owner has…

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Want a Second Home? Ron Paul Selling His Lake Jackson, TX Home — FSBOFB

By Candy Evans | April 19, 2011 | Comments Off on Want a Second Home? Ron Paul Selling His Lake Jackson, TX Home — FSBOFB

Ron Paul, the feisty Ob/Gyn (aren’t they all?) who represents the 14th Congressional District of Texas, and who may be making a run for a bigger house in D.C. called The White House, is selling his home in Lake Jackson, and doing it apparently without a realtor. Embracing social media, he’s listed his home on…

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Dallas Real Estate in 1986: We’ll Never Party Like This Again. Right.

By Candy Evans | April 19, 2011 | Comments Off on Dallas Real Estate in 1986: We’ll Never Party Like This Again. Right.

As I think I’ve made clear, I am tired of talk that luxury is dead. This happens, you see, every single time we have an economic downturn. Luxury items get blamed for the shenanigans of the few who screwed it up for all of us, as they sail on down to South America, chanting, let…

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