Second Shelters

Planning to Lease Your Home, and YOURSELF, for Super Bowl?

By Candy Evans | January 27, 2011 |

Hey, I’m always in the wrong place at the wrong time, so what the heck? A lot of people are asking me how they can offer their home up for lease for Super Bowl. Then this crossed my screen, and I thought, the heck with leasing the house. And should this cause a problem, this…

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Buy a House in Mexico? Now Even Cruise Ships are Avoiding Some Ports

By Candy Evans | January 27, 2011 | Comments Off on Buy a House in Mexico? Now Even Cruise Ships are Avoiding Some Ports

I feel so sorry for our neighbor to the south. I am signed up for several Google alerts — guess which one sends me the most stories? Crime in Mexico, Mexico crime. It’s enough to make you want to never cross the border, which is not fair, of course. The entire country of Mexico is…

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Super Bowl XLV Housing: Wanna Rent Your Home for Super Bowl Weekend?

By Candy Evans | January 26, 2011 |

Now that hotel rooms are getting as scarce as a prostitute in church for the big weekend, means more D/FW folks might be renting out their homes for Super Bowl XLV. I KNOW many homeowners would like to get a nice, big, fat deposit, turn over their keys, and then get out of town while…

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The Aikman Marriage Split: Troy Moves Office to Highland Home Office, Rhonda Heads North

By Candy Evans | January 25, 2011 |

So Troy’s moving his offices into the house/compound in Highland Park; Below: Rhonda’s moving on up to the Hollow. Rhonda’s new home on Mimosa, my favorite street name in Dallas.

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Why Did Rhonda Aikman Buy A Home In Preston Hollow? Second Home, Perhaps?

By Candy Evans | January 24, 2011 |

Seems that on 11/5/2010, Rhonda Aikman, wife of our very own Troy Aikman, bought a nice Mediterranean home on Mimosa Lane in Dallas for about $1.6. The home has five bedrooms, five and a half baths (corrected, thanks!),  graceful arches and textures of stone and stucco. There’s a California courtyard, Cantura wrought iron doors, stone…

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Dallas Real Estate News: Light, Bright, White and Very, Very Big

By Candy Evans | January 21, 2011 |

Wow. Like a lot of things in my life, I didn’t see this coming. I cannot think of a worse time to put this house on the market but, here goes. 6645 Northaven just went on the market for $11.5 million, listed with darling Lynette Scruggs of Dave Perry-Miller. The home was built on two…

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