He later became a real-estate developer, opening the Briarcliff Hotel at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and N. Highland Ave in the Virginia–Highland neighborhood of Atlanta.

Asa Jr. attended Emory College at its original campus in Oxford, Georgia and was a classmate of the future vice president Alben W.

Additionally, for more than 20 years, Candler was involved in running Westview Cemetery in Atlanta, where he built one of the largest community mausoleums in the world.

In 1925 Candler had the mansion enlarged, including the 1,700 square feet (160 m2) music room, now DeOvies Hall, with its vaulted Tudor interior, limestone fireplace and painted walls.

It was inaugurated in November 1925 in a recital by family friend Palmer Christian, which was broadcast over radio station WSB.

[7] The mansion also included a golf course, two swimming pools (one open to the public for 25 cents per person), and a private zoo.

[10] Candler collected exotic birds and animals in a menagerie at his estate with cages designed by architect Bodin.

Candler's neighbor sued him and won a $10,000 settlement because "a baboon jumped over the wall of the zoo and devoured $60 in currency out of her purse".

Asa Jr.'s uncle Bishop Warren Akin Candler officiated at her funeral, and she was buried, as her husband later was, in Westview Cemetery.

[13] In October 1927 Bishop Warren Candler married Asa Jr. to his second wife Florence Adeline Stephenson of Lithonia, Georgia, who for nine years had been his secretary.