[speaker002:] okay uh do you live in a home
[speaker001:] yes we we it's a house we bought uh about two and a half years ago now
[speaker002:] uh-huh  oh did you uh-huh we've we've lived in ours for about six years we had it built actually and um
[speaker001:] uh-huh the first house uh-huh
[speaker002:] yeah it it's our first home too
[speaker001:] uh-huh so what do you think of of owning a home as opposed to
[speaker002:] yeah huh
[speaker001:] to renting somebody else's
[speaker002:] um well before we built our home we were managing some apartments that we were living in and um that was quite an experience
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] I I much prefer having my own home and and uh just the space and and more privacy
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] do you have is it a fairly large house
[speaker002:] um it's uh oh it's like twenty four fifty square feet it's a two story yeah how about yours
[speaker001:] oh that's a pretty good size yeah uh-huh it's tiny it's not much bigger actually we had an apartment two bedroom apartment that was about as big as this house is so yeah it's uh it's only like eleven hundred square feet
[speaker002:] is it small oh really oh uh-huh do you do you have children
[speaker001:] just one yeah but it it uh all the rooms are small I I mean but it ends up giving us three bedrooms which we wanted yeah and uh use an extra one for an office
[speaker002:] just one huh oh oh uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] which is handy I'd rather have have more rooms and less space in each one I guess rather have lots of rooms and lots lots of space but uh that ends up costing me
[speaker002:] oh yeah yeah well like um how does it compare to the ones in your neighborhood
[speaker001:] well they're the it's pretty typical I mean it's it's a very very middle class neighborhood uh lots of lots of young couples with you know usually oh I'm sure that virtually everybody in the neighborhood that's their first homes and uh
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh
[speaker001:] lots of kids and and stuff and so it it fits well in the neighborhood it's it's certainly not a real upscale neighborhood but on the other hand it's clean and kind of suburban
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] little bit more than I want
[speaker002:] yeah uh
[speaker001:] is is yours also pretty much in conformance with a neighborhood or is it
[speaker002:] um yeah it it it it does it it seems about oh probably average um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] that our neighborhood has a just a wide variety of of um people and you know there's older people here and and um people that are about our age we're in our thirties and um there's a lot of kids a lot of kids people the people across the street have eight
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh wow eight kids oh my gosh
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh yeah their home just burned down matter of fact and um last summer and they're just rebuilding and um their house is going to be really big they're
[speaker001:] ooh I'm sure with eight gosh
[speaker002:] yeah they're building it up bigger he's at um uh oh not an obstetrician an an orthopedic surgeon and um so since the house did burn they're they're going it's quite different than it was before and it's it's a lot bigger
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] and um but ours is about it's you know it's a nice nice home it's it's definitely not one of the the smaller ones and um it's not the biggest either but
[speaker001:] yeah neighborhoods I mean they'll they'll they'll tend to to be real tight about that uh especially newer neighborhoods my my brother just built a new house uh um he he lives in Wichita Kansas and the um uh the neighborhood actually fought him on it because he he was um the house was gonna cost less to build than any other house in the neighborhood
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] now that's because he was he's doing a lot of it himself and you know for example landscaping and and lots of the other stuff and his house actually ends up being nicer than lots of other in the neighborhood but but they were they were pretty touchy on it he was a little surprised
[speaker002:] yeah yeah you you know that's interesting you say that because we do have we have those architectural codes here and when we um put our house in um they wanted us to have there was one
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] we have part siding it on on the two story part and then on the back and they there was one side where our chimney was and just the chimney was gonna be brick and they wanted us to have more brick so we ended up having to go halfway up
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] which it does look nicer and you know we would have liked to have had all brick but of course at that point we couldn't afford it and but it's funny that you'd say that because there were homes in here that didn't have any brick at all so it's kind of like they were
[speaker001:] right kind of depends on when they get in you know
[speaker002:] yeah yeah and I and so it was kind of like it's they ours is the last street that they built on so the houses actually on our street are a little bit they've kind of gone a little bit nicer
[speaker001:] um-hum oh they have it's got yeah yeah oh
[speaker002:] yeah I mean just they you know it's like the second phase and and so they've kind of changed the the codes a little bit and so that's kind of why I guess they stuck us with more brick when there were other homes that didn't have any and
[speaker001:] uh-huh hum well my see my sister kind of got in the opposite end of that because they they moved into a neighborhood and bought a a real nice stone house down in in South Austin and um
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and what the builder apparently plans to do is they they do phase one and they they kind of give it a very upscale and and very tightly controlled um codes and and and stuff and then they come back in and and and then they sell