Counting the Braxton-Hicks contractions over here at SecondShelters.com where we are about to launch a sibling blog called… CandysDirt.com. After much soul-searching, a few wine-laden focus groups, and a whole bunch of email, we have decided to do some organizing. (Ha! Then you get knocked up!) Vacation home news will rule on SecondShelters.com as it…
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Yes, Utah, the Mormon state, home of multiple wives and big families — kidding. (Sort of.) According to recent information released by the U.S. Census Bureau, as reported by U-Haul, Utah properties have the most rooms per home, on average, followed by Texas. The Census Bureau surveyed 915 metropolitan and micropolitan areas and found out…
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If you never believe me when I tell you that life revolves around real estate, you should have been up in McKinney on Saturday afternoon. Home and Garden Television chose Meritage Homes for an episode of it’s new competition reality show, “Showhouse Showdown,” featuring two designers duking it out for the chance to win the…
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I am not trying to sell you a house, and I could really care less who buys, who sells, unless it’s my home and my home is not on the market. But I worry about the housing market and the national news about it that keeps dragging us down. This week, the stock market was…
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Hello, my name is Candy Evans, and I am an open-house addict. FYI this weekend is National Open House Weekend. Now I hope to make open house info a regular part of my new CandysDirt.com blog when it’s up and running. But truthfully, I’m kind of torn by the whole open house concept. Did you…
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Isn’t it funny how you hear nothing but doom & gloom out of the mainstream media? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know properties in the Loop are really doing OK, but sometimes even my natural optimism is drowned by the national media. So I approached one of my trusty sources yesterday and said, you can go…
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