okay i'll let you start first okay
okay we um i'm presently living in a house uh first time uh
we had the house built and so this is our our fifth year in it i guess and uh
um it was a really excitement to uh
to go out and select a house and have one made and built and like you wanted it we were the fourth to build out of three hundred and forty houses
and um as we did with probably ninety five percent of the people here in Dallas Fort Worth we bought a Fox and Jacobs home
and they're good for about five years or four years and after that they start falling apart
so i would um
not recommend F and J house for my dog to live in uh because they're overpriced
um but they're a cheap house if you can't afford something good you know they're good for that and um you can call it a home because it's a place to go home and keep the rain off your head but as far as the costs for what your getting
uh the longevity of the house is not uh is not worth it
how about in your case
well in my case my husband is not a carpenter but in fact he's in electronics but he knew the only way we'd ever have a new home is if he would build it
so it took him about two and a half years
but uh he built us a house
it's uh we have thirty two hundred square feet
and it's a brick house
and pricewise it wasn't great because he did it all hisself you know so that way he could we could kind of control in control it
um-hum
and um we live in kind of a small town
um-hum
and i mean it's nothing fancy you know it's it's a house it's nice and it's real pretty and we're all comfortable in it
well that's great that's great that's uh i've heard i have another gentleman friend of mine who uh
who had a house built matter of fact another guy's building one now he's been doing it for three years and the city's a little upset with him but i understand you save a lot of money off uh by doing that and uh
oh you can because that way your not having to pay the middle men and everybody else
nothing wrong with that uh i'll vouch for that
you know
um
so but uh of course my husband did everything except my brother's a trim carpenter and he came in you know and did the inside for us
and that helped and and uh yes and uh we had to hire course the plumbing and the brick and everything else nothing you know he did everything else
that was a big savings
well that's great well have you been in it long
we've been in it six years
oh really well have you do you have any plans to uh maybe um expand or move onward
no no well well uh our kids are kind of still small now and we had thought before when they get a lot older we don't need such a large house
that we'll sell it but he will not build a second one himself because he says agewise he'll never be able to handle that again yes yes
i see well
first one's always a bear
we're having a an architect friend of mine design a house for us and uh that can basically be be be put on any lot in any state any country you know so that's kind of the
um
we just got with him and told him what all we wanted and he's charging about a buck a square foot to design it and he's registered certified and registered so at least we know we're it's not gonna fall in or something if it's built but uh i have heard
uh-huh
yeah oh
that your approach is is is right you can actually go out and sub it if even if you don't wanna get hands on you can even just sub it out the concrete and those kind of things and and that's kind of the plan i have so um uh everyone i talk to uh i've
uh-huh
yes
i file in my little book and do other things with it uh that's great that's great
but uh like i said otherwise you know a the the expense but you know we could not had one as large as we have if you know we hadn't did it ourself
sure i can imagine
yeah i mean it's not a Eldorado house or anything like that but you know it's ours
if your happy with it that's all that counts
that's right that's right
that's only only uh you only have to uh satisfy yourself and no one else
apparently apparently the appraisers likes it because our taxes sure is high isn't it it really is
ooh and that's uh that's uh a a encouraging sign if you ever wanna resell it i guess
because i i'm always shocked at about you know what they've got have it appraised at i think oh my goodness
a lot of money i bet well that's great well yeah i guess that about does it
okay and it was nice talking to you okay bye-bye
nice talking with you too bye
