Second Shelters

Want 13% Appreciation on a Second Home? Buy a Farm in Iowa!

By Candy Evans | November 19, 2010 |

Could farmland be the next real estate bubble? Want to get a second home that is not only in the country, it IS the country? Like The Bridges of Madison County country? Buy a farm in Iowa. No kidding: Iowa farmland rose in value by 13 percent in the year ending Oct. 1, according to…

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Extreme Dallas-Area House Porn: Champs D’Or

By Candy Evans | November 19, 2010 |

Actually, by Guest Blogger John Burgdorf The Champ d’Or, one of the most expensive estates in Texas, is back on the market for nearly $70,000,000 — $69,900,000 to be exact. (That’s $100,000 to negotiate.) The 48,000. sq foot mega mansion is located in Hickory Creek right across the Denton county/Tarrant county line. I have been…

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50% of all New York City Buildings Are Infested With Bedbugs, and Now Disney?

By Candy Evans | November 19, 2010 |

I used to pine for a getaway in New York City, a place to crash after partaking of all the cultural wealth and allure that city has to offer. Then came the bedbugs. Roaches were bad enough when I lived there, but now I travel with a flashlight and trepidation. How can you trust a…

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California’s Death Wish: Texas Says, Here’s a Knife

By Candy Evans | November 17, 2010 | Comments Off on California’s Death Wish: Texas Says, Here’s a Knife

More beating on surfin’ dudesville. Joel Kotkin, who was in Dallas last Friday, is on his Texas kick again and I just love it. In fact, I’ve offered to help him find a house in Texas and just move in. This time he’s talking about the political and social and plain insane suicide Californians dealt…

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Dallas House Porn: Still So Friggin’ In Love With This House

By Candy Evans | November 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Dallas House Porn: Still So Friggin’ In Love With This House

And I see that 3601 Euclid is still on the market. $4,995,000. Dang, didn’t I write about it last year or early spring? I am so in love with this house. I would have and hold it forever and tiptoe on those glass floors with a bottle of Windex by my side. Becky, holler at…

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Dallas Real Estate News: A Sam’s Club or West Village at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway?

By Candy Evans | November 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Dallas Real Estate News: A Sam’s Club or West Village at Walnut Hill and Central Expressway?

Kidding. Sort of. The folks who live near those 42 vacant acres at Central and Walnut Hill are going to be tripping over ‘dozers and cement trucks now that a Missouri investor has snapped up the land and created a new chapter for Dallas real estate. But the question is, how much did he pay…

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