How Second Homes Have Babies : The Palms Private Residence Club Joins 3RD Home

By Candy Evans | July 7, 2011 | Comments Off on How Second Homes Have Babies : The Palms Private Residence Club Joins 3RD Home

They procreate like this: The Palms Private Residence Club in Playa Flamingo, Costa Rica, has signed a sponsorship agreement with the premier international second home exchange firm, 3RD HOME, that enables Palms owners (or buyers) to exchange their properties with other second (and third, and fourth) homeowners throughout the world. That opens second home stay options up…

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Who’s Screwing Whom? Did You Check Out CandysDirt.com Yet Today For The Latest DALLAS Real Estate News?

By Candy Evans | July 5, 2011 | Comments Off on Who’s Screwing Whom? Did You Check Out CandysDirt.com Yet Today For The Latest DALLAS Real Estate News?

How do you deal with a home builder who has screwed you? Our experts at www.candysdirt.com tell you exactly what to do —  check it out! Our wonderful designers from Blue Cedar Design are working into the night to get a tab system working so you can flip back and forth between the two sites…

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Lockout? What Lockout? Beach Football Bonanza at Watercolor Beach This Holiday

By Candy Evans | July 5, 2011 | Comments Off on Lockout? What Lockout? Beach Football Bonanza at Watercolor Beach This Holiday

Sean Payton has a home on one of my favorite beaches, Watercolor, near Panama City Beach, Florida. Here’s his yummy house  — I was there, once. Sean is super generous with his beach house and this weekend it was loaded with football celebs who got an impromptu game of “7 on 7” touch football going on…

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It’s the (Texas) Economy, Stupid: Why Rick Perry Is Mulling a White House Run

By Candy Evans | July 5, 2011 |

I found this piece in the LA Times over the holiday weekend — it takes a brutally honest look at the Texas economy. One of every four jobs in the U.S. has been created in Texas post-recession — something I know you’ve heard here before, but the sound is now resonating loud and clear across the…

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This Ranch Is A Location Scout’s Dream: Acreage, Amenities, and Even a Landing Strip, One Hour From Dallas

By Candy Evans | July 5, 2011 |

Life was sure sweet this weekend out at Tejas Ranch, in Anna. This amazing property has “Texas” written all over it, so much it was under consideration as a shooting locaton for the now defunct Fox TV series Lone Star (starring Jon Voight), when the series was shooting last summer. Voight played a modern-day JR Ewing type oil tycoon. I…

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Will Baby Boomers Stay Put in the Suburbs or Flee to Retirement Communities?

By Candy Evans | July 1, 2011 | Comments Off on Will Baby Boomers Stay Put in the Suburbs or Flee to Retirement Communities?

This article in the Washington Post says that Baby Boomers are changing the face of suburbia and staying put, rather than retiring to the likes of Florida and Arizona, as their parents did, once they retire. The U.S. Census showed how rapidly America’s suburbs are growing — despite efforts to squeeze us into greener, urban multi-family…

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