so tell me about your home
my home all right my home is about fifteen years old
all right
it's a two story house it it's a first home and it looks like it's going to be the last i think we're going to demolish it
we've got two children and it's
they have scraped the uh plaster off the walls you know with riding their little toys through it and stuff
you know
yes
put dents in the tiles just multitude of them i mean even places it's it's past the dent stage we're talking some of it's been peeled away you know i don't know what they
we're talking from from dents into holes
yeah dents into holes right
i understand we've got i've got a daughter
we've got two one of them 's eleven and one of them 's seven and then the carpet you know we need to replace the carpet
oh
i mean it sounds like it's just the pits but it's not all that bad i guess but you know they're just real hard on it
kids are hard on houses
definitely i can see why people wait until they get like in high school or maybe junior high and then they get another one
yeah yeah
uh we live in a mobile home and that's probably not typical America but
i know there's a lot of them
it's what we have it's what we can afford
yeah
and uh
seems like we're always working on it
as i'm sure it is with your house
because they're always
because they're always ruining something
yeah
how old is your child
ten girl
well
so so you know just like yours
ours is always
you know we're something else goes wrong always you know it's
some appliances breaking or something
no appliances we had a couple plumbing problems we've
oh who knows you know it's always something with homes
and you said you were in Colorado Springs
yes
are there a lot of trailers around there
yeah there are there's uh big military constituency
and is that what you're in
oh no no i'm i work for TI
well then that's why you're doing this then isn't it
oh yes
okay well
what division are you in
i'm not in TI
oh
i had a friend that had a roommate that worked for TI and she saw this come up on the computer screen and ran it off
and passed it on to people that were interested
it's not a hobby you know it's something to do
i get to hear about Texas again a bit
get to talk to people all over the country the other night i talked to someone in Maryland i believe it was
i know i've been talking to people in Ohio and uh Virginia
and i think California
it's interesting isn't it
yeah it is
you know the gal i talked to in Maryland
didn't own a car she's never traveled anywhere she's never been anywhere she
you know i talked about one of the biggest problems in the United States being
our roads
and she didn't understand
she doesn't drive
how does she get to work
uh she uh lives on campus a college student
buses and and uh
public transportation
uh-huh
i had a room
her her parents live by the public transportation
and i wish we could down here
well it would be nice but i kind of like the freedom too don't you
well sometimes but i tell you i'd sure like to be able to get on a bus or something and get to work but if i did it it'd take me about an hour and fifteen minutes
i would have to get on one and drive or walk to a bus you know there's one terminal close to us and then they'd drive me to the main terminal here then i'd have to go to downtown Dallas and then walk over a couple of blocks and get on another bus to go to my school
right
if it's anything like uh
so that's too much
Dallas always has been no one wants to be at downtown Dallas much
yeah but there sure are a lot of people that work down there
is the crime rate still bad
definitely and i went down there a couple maybe three weeks ago for a trial
and i mean all these people were standing up that was you know during the workday all along the curve streets you know just
oh
all around these vacant buildings there's a lot of vacant buildings
and they're just being demolished
huh
and and they stink and beer and wine bottles all over the place huh-uh
yeah
huh that's terrible
um-hum
so Garland how nice is it now it's been a while since i've been there
you know i think it might be up to two hundred and fifty thousand
it's gotten big
yes it has
i think when we moved here it was like a hundred and twenty something like that
and i didn't realize when i moved here that it was a separate town from Dallas
well yeah it is
you know i know now
where you from
but i didn't i'm from Kilgore Texas it's in east
Kilgore i know where Kilgore is
oh where are you from
i'm i'm originally from Lubbock
are you
yeah
so why'd you move up to Colorado
seemed like the thing to do at the time
well it's real pretty up there i have a friend in Denver
oh i love it the mountains
i love the mountains
what do you going
uh back to the topic
what
it seems that uh
more and more people are not owning owning traditional homes these days
they're not owning homes period
yeah
yeah uh everyone says
you know when i bought this several years ago w hen our local economy was good everyone said no no you're crazy to buy a mobile home
uh-huh
but now it seems that uh with the local economy bad and TI and straits it seems that uh
it wasn't such a bad idea
oh they're doing some backpedaling
so have you got uh land
no i'm renting at the time so
i did that one year i lived with two other girls and we all taught
it was a two bedroom so we took turns
you know
turns
having sharing the bedroom
yeah
i got to where i decided i wanted to pay more rent and get a private bedroom
and then we had two baths it was just one the little bathroom were the thing that really bothered me because i felt real closed in
well mobile homes have changed a lot probably since you had one
ours is wood sided ours is wood sided
that was in the seventies
uh-huh
and it has uh a traditional V top roof
i'm sorry
and uh it's nine hundred and eighty square foot
one two bedroom one bath
uh-huh
rooms are nice sized
well you can imagine nine hundred eighty square foot broke up into
two bedrooms one bath it's it's comfy
so have
have you got it underpinned
yes
are you required to by law
i don't know whether it is or not
we were down here
it was already setup when we bought it
yeah
well i bet it's not bad
oh yeah it's wood sided it has sheetrock everywhere and uh
you know so it's quieter than you remember mobile homes to be
okay
but how much is yours when we bought ours we were paying two uh three hundred and twenty nine dollars
oh our payments are like two
twenty
for how many years
fifteen
oh so it was still a lot cheaper
and uh
what
so it was still a lot cheaper than what we did because ours is thirty years
and we bought one of the cheapest houses you know a tract house
yeah oh yes a mobile home's a heck of a lot cheaper and
well actually whenever we got ours we picked it up used you know
three or four years used and uh
which probably didn't make much difference
well yeah did
have a on it
no no no what i meant not in quality what i meant was
four years equity costs five hundred dollars
in the price
gee nice huh that sounds good
so you know there's not that much time left on the loan and
so if the economy gets better are you going to get another one
another house
i
don't know
no
uh to tell you the truth right now it feels kind of comfy to have our mobile home and have it so close to paid for
you know i need to pickup and move somewhere else
somewhere else is easy
but you wouldn't take that mobile home right
sure
you would
sure absolutely
it'd be cheaper to move that than buy another one
oh absolutely
when i you know when you talk about the deal like i got yeah
yeah it would be cheaper
uh especially if it were a paid move or something
you know there's some paid moves occasionally
TI would pay move you
i don't know but
they did when i when i moved up here so they might want to move away
so how many years you been up there
uh six or seven
do you snow ski
uh a little bit little bit mostly i just love walking the mountains driving in the mountains
it's real pretty i went rock climbing one time
oh that's exciting
my friend talked me in that i'm a real um scaredy when it comes to heights but once we got on top of the rocks it was quite
