Second Shelters

House Porn: Tiger Wood’s Jupiter Island Private Home and Golf Course

By Candy Evans | November 20, 2010 | Comments Off on House Porn: Tiger Wood’s Jupiter Island Private Home and Golf Course

Tiger Woods is one dude who appreciates, among other things,  second homes. Jeff Lichtenstein of Christie’s Great Estates & Illustrated Properties in Palm Beach Gardens, sent us a first glimpse of Tiger Wood’s backyard and private practice complex –click on that photo, this is great House Porn: “It appears he has one tee box in…

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Want 13% Appreciation on a Second Home? Buy a Farm in Iowa!

By Candy Evans | November 19, 2010 |

Could farmland be the next real estate bubble? Want to get a second home that is not only in the country, it IS the country? Like The Bridges of Madison County country? Buy a farm in Iowa. No kidding: Iowa farmland rose in value by 13 percent in the year ending Oct. 1, according to…

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Extreme Dallas-Area House Porn: Champs D’Or

By Candy Evans | November 19, 2010 |

Actually, by Guest Blogger John Burgdorf The Champ d’Or, one of the most expensive estates in Texas, is back on the market for nearly $70,000,000 — $69,900,000 to be exact. (That’s $100,000 to negotiate.) The 48,000. sq foot mega mansion is located in Hickory Creek right across the Denton county/Tarrant county line. I have been…

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50% of all New York City Buildings Are Infested With Bedbugs, and Now Disney?

By Candy Evans | November 19, 2010 |

I used to pine for a getaway in New York City, a place to crash after partaking of all the cultural wealth and allure that city has to offer. Then came the bedbugs. Roaches were bad enough when I lived there, but now I travel with a flashlight and trepidation. How can you trust a…

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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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