you been doing in your house
uh well since Christmas we painted a bedroom and did some wallpapering in there i had to do most of it since uh my wife was working
yeah
great where do you live
uh Austin yeah and getting getting ready around here to do some uh major yard work as soon as the weather turns a little bit nicer
Austin okay great
well we
yeah as soon as soon as it stops raining a little bit huh
yeah well actually the past couple days has made me want to get out there and get started but i figure i'd just be wasting my time
yeah
yeah great have you done much uh much in the way of home repairs
uh i've always maintained our homes as far as repairs and things like that except maybe i don't do heaters and air conditioners but
oh yeah
i usually do everything else right up to replacing dishwashers and things
great how old a house do you have
uh this house is was built in probably the mid seventies uh it's kind of a brick ranch not a whole lot needs to be done to it we've only we only moved here about a year ago
um-hum
oh yeah yeah great
what about you what kind of house you live in
oh well right now we're not we're living in a travel trailer but uh we've we we've just moved here to Dallas uh recently and we're living in that until we can find a place but
uh we lived in a brick homes in uh in Louisiana before this and did some uh various kinds of things uh made some storm windows to put up and
uh
uh really did a major rejob on the inside of the house uh put up some walls and uh put in a bathroom and stuff like that
uh
about two years ago we bought a house out at Smithville which is like forty miles east of Austin over toward Houston uh little old stucco house built in nineteen twenty one and uh
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oh yeah
we bought it to for to get for a weekend getaway
and it needed a lot of work but we saw it when we first looked at it we can do this and uh sure enough uh it's oh nineteen months later we sold it for twenty six and we bought it for sixteen five
wow that's pretty good yeah
and we did things like paint uh inside and outside and basically repaired the garages we put in expensive ceiling fans which was kind of dumb on my part but
it was something i thought the place needed because it had real high ceilings and uh just and just in general did everything we uh put in a hot water heater a new toilet and things like that kind of remodeled the kitchen cabinets
oh yeah
um-hum do you think it was worth uh the ceiling fans on your resale
well we weren't think talking about reselling it when we started doing it we were looking for something to do on weekends
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and it because my wife loves to pick out paint and experiment and if it doesn't work try another color things like that
so but when the offer came to us it was from a neighbor and they wanted their mother close to them and we thought well you know we're not we hadn't been out here but what once in three months and
and we had just bought this house in Austin so we thought well what the heck let's make a little money on it
oh yeah
sure well sounds good you think you'll do it again some time
yeah i'd like to uh
we have bought new homes in the past and and we'll never do that again because it was just boring for after about a week
hum
is that right yeah
yeah so
uh out in New Mexico one time we bought a really run down oh terribly run down home and uh it took us a year and a half to turn it around and make almost forty five thousand in profit on it
and that was just
oh it sounds like you've got a good bit of experience in that
yeah uh it's just we you know we map out what we want to do and we go for it uh
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whoever's got time to do it and course you get the major things done like your you know have the floors redone or have carpet put in whatever but the rest of it we usually do ourselves
sure we're thinking about possibly building a house now we aren't real sure whether we're gonna be able to do that or not but we just talked to a builder today as a matter of fact
you know just uh beginning to think about sketching out some plans and talked about some of the different uh
ways to go on you know different things
yeah i uh i think about that from time to time because we've never actually you know built one that we wanted you know the way we wanted it and things like that but
i'm not sure that our interest is that piqued in it to do something like that
yeah it sounds like you're uh really into uh remodeling what you get
yeah renovation renovation is kind of where we're at like our our favorite TV program is This Old House has been for many years
yeah
okay
and we would like to get ahold of something really old and redo it uh
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there again we might go back out to Smithville and buy another home and because they're so it's a town that time has passed by so there are a lot of old big homes and they're fairly inexpensive
oh yeah
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so
it's forty miles uh it's on the it's on the river and it's a quite nice little town they've been able to keep out a lot of businesses and things i mean there's no KMarts or anything like that around so
oh yeah
oh yeah
makes it kind of nice
ever are you um
looking to get
