[speaker001:] what kind of home is yours pretty similar to the ones around you or
[speaker002:] well I think so I mean
[speaker001:] is it
[speaker002:] we live in a neighborhood where you know the none of the homes are exactly exactly alike
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] our home's a two story home and
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] there's about half and half in our neighborhood that are ramblers that are two stories
[speaker001:] uh-huh is yours a split entry
[speaker002:] no no it's just a
[speaker001:] no it's a
[speaker002:] it's a regular two story all the bedrooms are upstairs and the and everything else is downstairs the basement is
[speaker001:] oh oh
[speaker002:] unfinished now you you live in Mantua don't you
[speaker001:] right yes uh we live in a ours is a little um
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] ours the street is fairly new in fact we were the very first home on the street and we've lived here almost nine years
[speaker002:] oh is that right
[speaker001:] yes and so we were we were the first one and um and I we don't have a garage or and the and the basement is not finished in fact we're just trying to review our options right now and decide whether we want to finish the basement and add on a garage or whether we're going to find something else or
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] gee we're just growing out of it
[speaker002:] did you build the house
[speaker001:] yes yes we did it it was new and um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] there's a variety of of homes along our street in fact next door to us is a log cabin home
[speaker002:] oh really
[speaker001:] yes and it's it's just beautiful inside it's
[speaker002:] do you like it
[speaker001:] I do but if I think if I had a log cabin I'd want it to be
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] a cabin type home rather than a
[speaker002:] oh rather than your personal residence
[speaker001:] yeah rather than something I went to every day and I and I would want it on a different setting than you know a row of houses it's
[speaker002:] something yeah
[speaker001:] it's beautiful inside but it to me it looks just a bit out of place
[speaker002:] yeah we've got a person that wants to build a log cabin in this neighborhood and we have some uh protective covenants
[speaker001:] oh oh yes
[speaker002:] and they've really got into kind of some well it's kind of been a messy situation it's
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] actually gotten down to lawsuits and these are people that are you know
[speaker001:] oh has it
[speaker002:] in
[speaker001:] oh that's
[speaker002:] see each other every Sunday at church and then they're suing each other it's not it's not a good situation
[speaker001:] oh dear  oh dear now why did they want to build a log they just that's what they prefer huh
[speaker002:] well it's it's a a single gal that uh well she's divorced and
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] uh think they have they're pretty actually uh good price per square foot
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh think she's thinking that would be a good economical way to get a get the home that she likes at
[speaker001:] oh oh that's yeah because apparently they save quite a bit when you put them together from the kit or or however they come
[speaker002:] yeah I I'm not sure it's it's been a really controversy a controversy
[speaker001:] oh dear so is she going to be able to build to build it do you think
[speaker002:] not so far no because the the restrictive covenants provide to the
[speaker001:] not so far
[speaker002:] one of the uh covenants is uh curiously enough uh that it has to be in harmony with the existing structures
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] so when the you know when the copy it doesn't look like the other homes it kind that's one thing item that has to occur in our neighborhood
[speaker001:] right  huh well that is interesting
[speaker002:] we have to have uh a lot of uh  if you don't have uh brick on it for example they're a little bit hard on you
[speaker001:] um-hum oh yeah
[speaker002:] like you have a certain amount brick and a certain amount uh some other material siding or
[speaker001:] does it have to be uh a certain square footage or a certain price
[speaker002:] stucco uh I think there is a minimum square footage I'm not sure what it is
[speaker001:] is there oh we've we've been looking around at different pieces of land and have found a a couple that that had the minimum square footage
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh
[speaker001:] you know requirement but um huh that's interesting that the other houses along our road are like you say some are ramblers and some are the two story so
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but ours ours is the smallest one on the road
[speaker002:] ours is you know our subdivision is really only about seventy homes
[speaker001:] so oh
[speaker002:] and uh our street is uh the nicest homes are on our street I will say that not uh being boastful but I think our street does have the nicer homes
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah well that's good
[speaker002:] we border uh well just on the other side the houses across our street uh from ours are the probably the nicer homes because they border on the golf course and they have a creek that runs through their backyard
[speaker001:] oh oh oh that's nice
[speaker002:] yeah but uh
[speaker001:] that is nice now did you build you built yours
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah we've been in it six years
[speaker001:] oh oh did you do the contracting yourself or did you hire a contractor or
[speaker002:] and uh we had a contractor come and do that uh
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] I really don't know much about home construction I well I know a little bit I did a little bit of work in summer in summer sometimes just doing some framing but
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] I don't know when you got a full time job and a family you really don't have the time
[speaker001:] that's right it takes it takes did you finish your basement yourself or
[speaker002:] no I haven't finished it yet
[speaker001:] oh you haven't finished it
[speaker002:] but see our upstairs has four bedrooms
[speaker001:] oh you don't need it yet then do you
[speaker002:] we we really haven't had occasion to to to need it so
[speaker001:] to need it