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
