and
have you lived in Garland long
um yeah we're going about six years yeah
about six years tell me your name again i'm sorry Carol okay um are you in a new area or old
Carol um-hum
um well it's about six years old we've lived here as long as the house has been built so i guess it is
new in some way although we're learning it's falling apart
yeah yeah
oh really
no that's exaggeration but we had some problems yesterday so
oh no leakage or
um some plumbing problems
oh not
so and it damaged the carpet and we're going to have to do something we're not sure call insurance or something so
i'm not sure what to do
well our house is about um twelve years old i guess we've been in it for about two years and
uh-huh
i guess there's advantages advantages and disadvantages to moving into a new or old house um
one thing it had all of the window treatments you know so we didn't have to redo that and it had been updated but
right
uh-huh
their roof is old was old so uh last year we covered the wood shingles with uh that composition
uh-huh
and that was cost a fortune and uh
oh yeah
now we're we're in the process of uh repainting the interior because we didn't paint when we first moved in
and uh you know when you shop for houses you don't notice all the little things you think oh this is beautiful and everything and then you find out that it's
yeah
uh i wouldn't think about the painting
you know that it's not as great well there's just a lot of uh i mean it has
that well the family before us raised three kids and a dog and cats and and so there's just wear wear and tear on the house but you don't notice
uh-huh
yeah
yeah
until you live in it and have to clean it and you know you you find scratch marks on the wood or
yeah
yeah
you know places were the dog chewed or i don't know things like that
yeah
yeah because we're kind of thinking of uh trying to find a used home and uh the ones we've looked at have been really nice
um but you know there's some things you don't really think about looking at in a pre owned home that that you do in a new home so
i would say uh you know that uh
who is it the inspector you know that you use just um they have a list of things they go over but
uh-huh
you know i think we had maybe a list on top of that that some friends had of ours had told us to go through
and just things that they might not normally look for and and go around with them and even if you're kind of on their you know looking over their shoulder or whatever um
um-hum
um-hum
because there's lots of things that furniture hides and you know we have a place we have picture frame paneling in our living room and
it is in beautiful condition it's uh it's a custom home but there's just areas that they skimped on and uh but the
um-hum
the uh picture frame paneling for the most part is beautiful and and they had this big arrangement on the mantel
and it and i think one thing about the house that made us fall in love with it was
their decorating you know their furniture once you move in your furniture into the house it's kind of it doesn't have quite the same look but um
oh really
yeah
yeah
because we're um you know we haven't been married we've been married for almost four years and
uh-huh
uh anyway
but there's a piece of paneling behind that's above the mantel that has
yeah
um it's right above the fireplace and i think they there must have been some water running down the chimney behind there because there is some water damage and it's warped and with it being picture frame i don't know how to
yeah
uh-huh
how to replace that one piece without having to tear it all down because it's one of the inset pieces so there's a lot of things to you know to look for and um
uh-huh
uh yeah
yeah
yeah
but i guess new homes are like that to they probably have things that are constantly
yeah
needing fixed or at least you probably have to i don't know did did you all did the builder provide the mini blinds and stuff like that or did you all yeah you had to go purchase all that
oh no no huh-uh yeah yeah from scratch everything but we're trying to look for a bigger home right now and and
what size what size home are you in now
right now we're in um seventeen hundred square feet so it's were looking for something a lot bigger because we have two kids
uh-huh
and uh but i like Garland i love Garland i really really want to stay in Garland if i can but
uh you know there's there's other places too like Sachse and that and that area place area out there which is really nice i've been to some friend's house out there and there's just uh there there's some really nice homes out there
i'm not really familiar with the homes in Garland i guess i know
um i tried
