Second Shelters
I love Curbed, who tells us “there is no end to the stream of earnest folks trying to pimp out their crappy old stuff on Craigslist. Now there’s a person—a man, we’re assuming from the Craigslist post—who’s trying to sell off a queen-sized Serta Perfect Sleeper mattress for $1M.“ Is this nuts? Just very creative.…
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This is the new breed of tech savvy Realtor — excuse me, iRealtor — and I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the Clay Stapp style is shaking things up in this town. They do contracts on ipads. They promote properties elusively on the web, they twitter, tweet, blog, Facebook, Four-Square, Digg, AIM, everything.…
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The Dallas Observer reports that in 14 days, our DISD School Superintendent Michael Hinojosa will be moving to Atlanta’s Cobb County to take over as school superintendent. This comes after last fall when he was courted by Las Vegas, turned them down, promised Dallas he would cast his eyes no more and stay put. Then…
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Note: Our soon-to-be launched local Real Estate blog, CandysDirt.com, will feature regular profiles of top agents and brokers across North Dallas as well as contributions for real on-the-ground (dirt!) perspectives. But we just couldn’t wait to let the cat out of the bag: Brad Holden is a Dallas-area broker/realtor who has been active in Texas…
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More proof that the rich are getting richer, and the American middle class is diminishing: according to Mother Jones Magazine, the top 100th of 1% of the wealthiest Americans, now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90% of the US population is $31,244. The median net worth…
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Recall the unbelievable $15 million sale on Gillon I told you about last week? Well, turns out the buyers are none other than that darling Natalie and Mike McGuire of Andrews Distributing fame. So turn about means they are selling their home on one of the most prestigious streets in Dallas on Lakeside Drive. This…
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