Candy Evans

Real Estate Sleep Overs: Only When You Sign Up

By Candy Evans | April 15, 2011 | Comments Off on Real Estate Sleep Overs: Only When You Sign Up

Who’s ready for some sun? Need a beach fix before Easter? I am doing some serious arm-twisting to get you free sleep-overs at a handful of glorious second home properties but they are ONLY available to those wise folks who subscribe! I mean, they are sitting there empty, so why not have some company, right?…

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Foreclosures Down Across the Nation, Too, But it Still Is Not Miller Time

By Candy Evans | April 15, 2011 | Comments Off on Foreclosures Down Across the Nation, Too, But it Still Is Not Miller Time

My colleagues over at AOL say we are not alone with our positive foreclosure numbers, as filings across the country have dropped, though Texas still got lumped in with the new bad boys of real estate: Nevada, Illinois, Ohio, Colorado, Florida. (Why weren’t California and Arizona on that list?) But the story is not about…

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Good Dallas Real Estate News: Dallas Fort Worth Residential Foreclosure Postings Drop to 40 Month Low!

By Candy Evans | April 15, 2011 | Comments Off on Good Dallas Real Estate News: Dallas Fort Worth Residential Foreclosure Postings Drop to 40 Month Low!

For the first time in more than THREE YEARS, foreclosures are diminishing in Dallas Fort Worth. George Roddy Sr. of Foreclosure Listing Service, Inc. reports some good news preceding the spring market: Dallas Fort Worth residential foreclosure postings have dropped to a 40-month low. Roddy says that for the upcoming auctions on May 3, only…

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Not On The Market! Why Send Your Kid to Harvard When You Can Just Live There?

By Candy Evans | April 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Not On The Market! Why Send Your Kid to Harvard When You Can Just Live There?

This home in not yet in the MLS: 3708 Harvard, going on for $5.3 million. I love the back yard with the mini plunge pool and water features. Five bedrooms, seven and a half baths, 3 car garage, 3 totalĀ  living areas, 3 offices, 7375 sq. ft. on a 75 by 150 foot lot, built…

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Josh Hamilton: Resting Up Just Fine at Home in Vaquero, Achoo!

By Candy Evans | April 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Josh Hamilton: Resting Up Just Fine at Home in Vaquero, Achoo!

Never mind what former Rangers manager Bobby Valentine said last night on “ESPN’s Baseball Tonight”, that mumbo about Josh Hamilton’s past drug use will affect his ability to “cure” his broken shoulder. It’s April in Texas: I think it’s ALLERGIES that will inhibit his healing — look at all those pretty plants in the yard!

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Death of the Vanity Ad: Real Estate Take-Aways from Agent ReBoot: Dallas Real Estate News

By Candy Evans | April 14, 2011 |

When you shop for a high-end car, do you pick the salesperson (and buy the car) because he or she had a vanity ad in some glossy magazine or on a billboard? Or do you buy because of the car and dealer? We have bought almost our all cars for years from Park Place because…

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