okay okay i guess we're ready to start well i guess what part of what part of the country do you live in oh okay well i'm also in Dallas i'm in Dallas Texas what about yourself okay the reason i ask is the last two conversations i've had or have been out of state uh-huh but um have you always lived here in Dallas and no i've lived here for almost five years now i see and i'm a uh before that i was at school in Rochester New York and i'm originally from Boston oh well you are seeing quite a different climate and quite a different neighborhood that's right but i like it you probably have enjoyed getting away from the snow well i missed it at first but now i go back there and i'm a real wimp about the cold so i like it here it's nice yeah well that's good i i have lived in Texas essentially all my life and around in Texas and and um-hum uh i have traveled up in the northeast and around and have enjoyed it but uh um-hum i don't know i'm not sure i would want to take on those winters i'm getting older and i know uh not sure that's really something i wanna do i live uh over in the Lake Highlands area if you're familiar with that area yeah um tell me where that is um okay uh you i probably do know but i don't know by that name this is pretty well where LBJ and Audelia Skillman cross okay sure we're just north of uh White Rock Lake oh okay yeah i know that area that's a nice area well we have some very nice house homes here in this area um my particular i guess they want us to describe the area so um my particular area the homes run anywhere from about sixty five eighty thousand dollars on up to probably half a million uh-huh oh that's quite a range yes um the homes that were here earlier were smaller now they've gotten larger and larger as as they've developed the land and of course it's pretty static right now and all the values over here have dropped off because of the economy uh-huh yeah how about you well i am um i'm gosh i'm barely in Dallas i'm just north of Addison Airport up on the tollway okay uh okay and i guess we have a similar situation i mean we've got houses two streets away that are probably around seventy eighty thousand and then we've got Bent Tree right across the street um-hum okay so i don't i don't even know how high those go but some of those are pretty big yes those are over a million yeah so it's that's the strange thing about i guess Dallas because back where i'm from you wouldn't have that sort of a variation at all they'd all be pretty similar to one another within a a couple miles so well we have suffered from real lack of land use planning in Dallas not as bad as Houston yeah but exactly what you're describing is what happens all over um-hum yeah i've noticed that well now do you live in a a home or a zero lot home or um-hum uh we've got a house let's see we moved in about four years ago and it was it had previously been unoccupied but it had existed for three years this is a whole block of homes that uh a builder built all of them and i guess he he did some crazy thing to get some extra money from the bank and then ran away okay type of deal so the whole block was all foreclosed oh and so some were vacant for quite a while before they you know they finally sold them because there were so many well your was your house in good shape was it damaged yeah no the only thing that we were worried about was the air conditioner because they'd have it just running constantly with the doors and windows open oh it was oh but uh yeah so we just you know we bargained to get an extra warranty on that i see and um we're really we haven't had any problems and you know we had originally thought we'd have to get a fix up special or something because being from the Northeast we figured we couldn't afford anything but the prices are much lower here and this was definitely not a fix up special but i'll tell you it takes all my time between we put in our own sprinkler system and i just finished repainting the exterior and you know making drapes and buying furniture it's just a money pit really is yes i so am familiar with that i where i live is a house that's seventeen years old when i bought it uh-huh and we bought it from someone who was in it but before they had it i found out after i had been in the house it had it had sat empty for the better part of a year uh-huh and i'm not sure what happened but i do know the folks that we bought it from had done virtually no maintenance for for about four years oh no i i i found a lot of things which