[speaker002:] all right so uh you live in Dallas
[speaker001:] yes I live in Dallas
[speaker002:] now I understand that um the the real estate market out there has really gone crazy up and down up and down
[speaker001:] yeah I think right now it's it's kind of bad uh I don't live in a house I live in an apartment
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] are are you in a house okay
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh yeah we have a single family home in northern Virginia just outside of Washington
[speaker001:] well I guess the best I can do is is uh compare apartments if I can compare the one that I have now with the one that I had the last time the one that I have now uh has a lot more amenities I guess is the right word than the one that I moved out of uh this one you know gave us free cable and uh ceiling fans and uh it was practically new when I moved in here and the carpet was new and
[speaker002:] huh do you live in the high-rise
[speaker001:] no it's not a high-rise it's just a a two story building
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh but there's you know there there are a lot of buildings but it's just two stories uh on the second floor they have they don't have a patio but they have a sunroom instead of the patio on the first floor um where I am there's a patio
[speaker002:] oh okay so so you just you have one floor all to yourself oh okay
[speaker001:] yeah the rooms are nice and large and let's see I have I have two bedrooms and uh
[speaker002:] oh that's nice do you get your own washer dryer
[speaker001:] well I I I have a washer and dryer area and I I did buy the washer and dryer but they didn't provide it the one that I moved from didn't didn't have a place to put put them and that's one of the reasons that I did move
[speaker002:] oh yeah that is nice
[speaker001:] yeah get tired of dragging clothes to the Laundromat
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so tell me about
[speaker002:] yeah I've always uh been pretty lucky the real estate out here's been pretty good its uh the the prices of well the prices came down last year we've we had sort of like a Dallas syndrome the past uh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh year and a half prices have gone down which is totally new for northern Virginia it just never happened before so it's really surprising everybody all the developers don't know what to do
[speaker001:] uh-huh just it's real good yeah it's a good time to buy if you're in the market
[speaker002:] yeah unfortunately we're uh we actually have our house on the market because we have two kids and we have a three bedroom house and it's pretty much filled up right now
[speaker001:] um-hum oh so you want a bigger one
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum get an extra bedroom or a basement right now it's just a a single level rambler
[speaker001:] uh-huh one thing about the houses in uh in Dallas they don't uh utilize basements the way they did in New York my parents in New York had uh a uh three family house
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] actual actually it was a two family house where the the um the downstairs and the second floor they had and then they rented the third floor with the whole apartment
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and uh they had a basement and they you know they finished the basement and they were able to rent that out also but uh in Dallas I I just I I just haven't seen basements in houses
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and I've looked at a lot of them
[speaker002:] yeah a friend of mine was thinking about coming down there and that's what he said was that you know it just wasn't something that people had down there they put pools and garages on but uh no basements
[speaker001:] no it's not right I haven't I haven't I have yet to see a basement in a house
[speaker002:] hum maybe it's all the sand is there a lot of sand in I always think it's like a desert I don't know when I think of Dallas always
[speaker001:] well no no no no you know I don't see that kind of sand here um there are some areas though where where they have a problem with uh the houses kind of sinking a little bit into the
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] to the uh or the foundation sinking or something you know just a just a little bit some more than others but you you have to know the right spot to to pick where that doesn't happen and uh
[speaker002:] yeah well out here we um we live in what used to be uh like a prairie or whatever a natural you know natural grasslands and uh they it's just you go down four inches and you get to sandstone well fourteen inches you get to sandstone
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker002:] and so any place where they put a basement in they had to blast it's just solid sandstone
[speaker001:] I see huh where did you say you're at Colorado
[speaker002:] no Virginia yeah it's sort of unusual really most of Virginia is clay
[speaker001:] Virginia Virginia that's right uh-huh anywhere near uh Virginia Beach huh
[speaker002:] oh yeah uh-huh yeah my uh my folks used to live there back before I was born they lived there
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh well different areas in Dallas have different kind in uh in Texas I'll say because down in east Texas there's a lot of red clay and um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] in the in the Dallas you know Fort Worth city areas you don't see that
[speaker002:] yeah well uh Texas is a big state so I imagine the the type of houses and uh things like that are truly different from area to area but uh
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well
[speaker002:] that's the same way out here because um well we for example and we live fifteen miles from the beltway that surrounds Washington
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and anything inside that beltway the highway the real estate's forty thousand dollars more expensive
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so you know you really can't afford I I I could never afford a house inside the beltway that's why we came out here this is called the the the country you know with only you know maybe twenty miles total from DC twenty five
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] from the city but um it's considered the country since it's uh you know that far out but um yeah we live out by Dulles Airport
[speaker001:] well I see
[speaker002:] yeah and uh that's one of the few places still in northern Virginia they have trailer parks that are down around the corner from here and you know it's it's still pretty rural
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh not too much of northern Virginia is like that anymore land has gotten so expensive they just can't afford to have low income housing like that
[speaker001:] so is your house in an area by itself I mean
[speaker002:] no we're in a development there's uh yeah there's another one half an acre away or a quarter acre away rather
[speaker001:] not connected to another one oh but it's not they're not connected are they uh-huh
[speaker002:] oh no huh-uh yeah its uh a stand alone single family home I sort of got spoiled with that when I was growing up
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] uh my folks um had an apartment for a while when we were kids but um for the most part I they they always had you know and Pennsylvania always had a single family home and so
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know as soon as we could we we got a single family home and that's all I ever knew growing up so I stayed in a townhouse for uh two years and then uh saved up enough money to to get a
[speaker001:] uh-huh