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After Hurricane Odile, Response and Recovery Shows The Cabo Community’s Strength

By Joanna England | October 7, 2014 | Comments Off on After Hurricane Odile, Response and Recovery Shows The Cabo Community’s Strength

Faryn Masso Clark, founder of Facelogic spa, was living the good life as an expat in Cabo, but had to evacuate back to Texas after Hurricane Odile made landfall on Baja California Sur Sept. 15. “We didn’t want to leave at all,” Clark said. But, because of necessity, Clark, her husband, her three kids and…

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Don’t Miss The Latest ‘Grand Vie’ With a Column on Boot Ranch From Candy!

By Joanna England | October 3, 2014 | Comments Off on Don’t Miss The Latest ‘Grand Vie’ With a Column on Boot Ranch From Candy!

The newest issue of the luxury home publication of Ebby Halliday, Realtors and Dave Perry-Miller & Associates is out, and includes a fantastic column from Candy herself on life in Boot Ranch. The fall/winter 2014 edition of the direct-mailed glossy went out to 30,000 of North Texas’ most tony abodes, and is chock-full of the most…

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Vacation Home Week Recap: From Maine to Santa Fe and Points In Between, The Second Home Market is Second to None!

By Joanna England | August 25, 2014 | Comments Off on Vacation Home Week Recap: From Maine to Santa Fe and Points In Between, The Second Home Market is Second to None!

Our Vacation Home Week celebration on CandysDirt.com was such an amazing success. We got to feature incredible second homes and developments in some of our favorite locations. Luxury amenities and gorgeous design, each one of these homes has just what you want for a getaway and then some! And boy, let me tell you about…

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Ranch of the Week: Super Cute in Celina, TX

By Kathryn Roan | August 1, 2014 | Comments Off on Ranch of the Week: Super Cute in Celina, TX

Talk about location, y’all! Commuting distance to Dallas, and right by Highway 75 and McKinney, 4445 County Road 208 in Celina is for the working rancher. The property is a modest 7.22 acres, so plenty of room for a few stay-at-home horses without being overwhelming or too much to take care of. Seven acres is…

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Boot Ranch Hosts 5th Annual Nimitz Golf Classic, Raises More Than $100K For Veteran Nonprofit

By Joanna England | July 16, 2014 | Comments Off on Boot Ranch Hosts 5th Annual Nimitz Golf Classic, Raises More Than $100K For Veteran Nonprofit

Not only is Boot Ranch a gorgeous place to play and stay, it’s also a fabulous community that focuses on supporting America’s heroes — our veterans. More than 150 golfers turned out at the fifth annual Nimitz Golf Classic on June 12. The 2014 Nimitz Golf Classic raised more than $100,000 for both the Admiral Nimitz…

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Dallas Family Finds Second Home Nirvana in Alpine, Texas Log Cabin

By Candy Evans | July 8, 2014 |

Last week, on CandysDirt.com,  we told you about Albany, Texas, kind of the new Marfa clone only a couple hours west of Fort Worth. Well, many Dallasites still love the trek to West Texas. Take Tex Gross, Chairman of Commerce Street Capital in Dallas, and his wife, Vaughn. They had been looking for a vacation home…

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