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Ski Report: Taos – Louis Bacon’s Touch on the Unresort Resort

By Dallas Addison | March 4, 2014 |

Taos is an enigma–well known and loved by some, unknown to many. It is unique, beautiful and iconic. First, Taos the city and Taos the mountain resort are two entirely different animals. Taos the city is one of the oldest inhabited areas of the nation, a city of beautiful adobe structures that combines small, intimate…

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How Can a Ski Resort Adapt to Sustainability: Dallas Addison Says They Can, Are, and Have To

By Dallas Addison | November 20, 2013 | Comments Off on How Can a Ski Resort Adapt to Sustainability: Dallas Addison Says They Can, Are, and Have To

A week or so ago, our contributor Dallas Addison, an attorney and vacation home property developer/consultant, gave us the Aspen report and said that vacation home communities are getting greener, more sustainable, because they have to to stay in business. I called BS; how, I asked Dallas, can you even tell me that a ski…

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3RD Home and SecondShelters.com Forge Partnership. Because You Can NEVER Have Too Many Homes!

By Candy Evans | October 24, 2013 | Comments Off on 3RD Home and SecondShelters.com Forge Partnership. Because You Can NEVER Have Too Many Homes!

You have heard me bragging on 3RD Home on these pages before. 3RD Home (see ad to right) is a web site for second home owners that expands second home ownership by creating a home swap of vetted vacation home owners and properties. It’s like belonging to your very own Exclusive Resorts, only more exclusive.…

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Long Cove on Cedar Creek Lake: Clearly the Most Remarkable Vacation Home Spot in North Texas for Old Fashioned FUN

By Candy Evans | August 30, 2013 |

Don McNarama does real estate developments, and he does them right. He is the investor responsible for Dallas’ well-known CityPlace, which includes the West Village urban developments. West Village has become a virtual synonym for successful urban commercial real estate development. If I had a dime for every time a developer said to me, “we are building…

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If You Have Ever Dreamed of Fractional Home Ownership –Even for a Second — Tonight is Your Night, Baby

By Candy Evans | October 9, 2012 |

Surely you’ve dreamed of second home ownership but like me, you are a perpetual tire kicker OR you worry that you won’t use the home enough, the maintenance will drive you batty. Second home owners sometimes corner me at parties and say, hey you with your damn fetish for multiple home ownership, it’s helluva lot of work.…

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Timbers May Very Well Own the Fractional Market, Adds Mayacama in Sonoma to Private Residence Club Portfolio

By Candy Evans | September 13, 2012 | Comments Off on Timbers May Very Well Own the Fractional Market, Adds Mayacama in Sonoma to Private Residence Club Portfolio

The stakes just got higher in the super competitive, high end fractional private residence club market. I told you about El Corazon de Sante Fe joining up with the unbeaten Fairmont Residence Club program. Have been at both El Corazon and Fairmont Ghirardelli Square now and really didn’t think it could get any better. In…

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