[speaker002:] so tell me about your home
[speaker001:] my home all right my home is about fifteen years old
[speaker002:] all right
[speaker001:] it's a two story house it it's a first home and it looks like it's going to be the last I think we're going to demolish it we've got two children and it's they have scraped the uh plaster off the walls you know with riding their little toys through it and stuff you know
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] put dents in the tiles just multitude of them I mean even places it's it's past the dent stage we're talking some of it's been peeled away you know I don't know what they
[speaker002:] we're talking from from dents into holes
[speaker001:] yeah dents into holes right
[speaker002:] I understand we've got I've got a daughter
[speaker001:] we've got two one of them 's eleven and one of them 's seven and then the carpet you know we need to replace the carpet
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] I mean it sounds like it's just the pits but it's not all that bad I guess but you know they're just real hard on it
[speaker002:] kids are hard on houses
[speaker001:] definitely I can see why people wait until they get like in high school or maybe junior high and then they get another one
[speaker002:] yeah yeah uh we live in a mobile home and that's probably not typical America but
[speaker001:] I know there's a lot of them
[speaker002:] it's what we have it's what we can afford
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh seems like we're always working on it as I'm sure it is with your house
[speaker001:] because they're always because they're always ruining something
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] how old is your child
[speaker002:] ten girl
[speaker001:] well
[speaker002:] so so you know just like yours ours is always you know we're something else goes wrong always you know it's
[speaker001:] some appliances breaking or something
[speaker002:] no appliances we had a couple plumbing problems we've  oh who knows you know it's always something with homes
[speaker001:] and you said you were in Colorado Springs
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] are there a lot of trailers around there
[speaker002:] yeah there are there's uh big military constituency
[speaker001:] and is that what you're in
[speaker002:] oh no no I'm I work for TI
[speaker001:] well then that's why you're doing this then isn't it
[speaker002:] oh yes
[speaker001:] okay well
[speaker002:] what division are you in
[speaker001:] I'm not in TI
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] I had a friend that had a roommate that worked for TI and she saw this come up on the computer screen and ran it off and passed it on to people that were interested
[speaker002:] it's not a hobby you know it's something to do I get to hear about Texas again a bit get to talk to people all over the country the other night I talked to someone in Maryland I believe it was
[speaker001:] I know I've been talking to people in Ohio and uh Virginia and I think California
[speaker002:] it's interesting isn't it
[speaker001:] yeah it is
[speaker002:] you know the gal I talked to in Maryland didn't own a car she's never traveled anywhere she's never been anywhere she you know I talked about one of the biggest problems in the United States being our roads and she didn't understand  she doesn't drive
[speaker001:] how does she get to work
[speaker002:] uh she uh lives on campus a college student buses and and uh public transportation
[speaker001:] uh-huh I had a room
[speaker002:] her her parents live by the public transportation
[speaker001:] and I wish we could down here
[speaker002:] well it would be nice but I kind of like the freedom too don't you
[speaker001:] well sometimes but I tell you I'd sure like to be able to get on a bus or something and get to work but if I did it it'd take me about an hour and fifteen minutes I would have to get on one and drive or walk to a bus you know there's one terminal close to us and then they'd drive me to the main terminal here then I'd have to go to downtown Dallas and then walk over a couple of blocks and get on another bus to go to my school
[speaker002:] right if it's anything like uh
[speaker001:] so that's too much
[speaker002:] Dallas always has been no one wants to be at downtown Dallas much
[speaker001:] yeah but there sure are a lot of people that work down there
[speaker002:] is the crime rate still bad
[speaker001:] definitely and I went down there a couple maybe three weeks ago for a trial  and I mean all these people were standing up that was you know during the workday all along the curve streets you know just
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] all around these vacant buildings there's a lot of vacant buildings and they're just being demolished
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] and and they stink and beer and wine bottles all over the place huh-uh
[speaker002:] yeah huh that's terrible
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so Garland how nice is it now it's been a while since I've been there
[speaker001:] you know I think it might be up to two hundred and fifty thousand it's gotten big
[speaker002:] yes it has
[speaker001:] I think when we moved here it was like a hundred and twenty something like that and I didn't realize when I moved here that it was a separate town from Dallas
[speaker002:] well yeah it is
[speaker001:] you know I know now
[speaker002:] where you from
[speaker001:] but I didn't I'm from Kilgore Texas it's in east
[speaker002:] Kilgore I know where Kilgore is
[speaker001:] oh where are you from
[speaker002:] I'm I'm originally from Lubbock
[speaker001:] are you
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so why'd you move up to Colorado
[speaker002:] seemed like the thing to do at the time
[speaker001:] well it's real pretty up there I have a friend in Denver
[speaker002:] oh I love it the mountains I love the mountains
[speaker001:] what do you going
[speaker002:] uh back to the topic
[speaker001:] what
[speaker002:] it seems that uh more and more people are not owning owning traditional homes these days
[speaker001:] they're not owning homes period
[speaker002:] yeah yeah uh everyone says you know when I bought this several years ago w hen our local economy was good everyone said no no you're crazy to buy a mobile home
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but now it seems that uh with the local economy bad and TI and straits it seems that uh
[speaker001:] it wasn't such a bad idea
[speaker002:] oh they're doing some backpedaling
[speaker001:] so have you got uh land
[speaker002:] no I'm renting at the time so
[speaker001:] I did that one year I lived with two other girls and we all taught it was a two bedroom so we took turns you know
[speaker002:] turns
[speaker001:] having sharing the bedroom
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I got to where I decided I wanted to pay more rent and get a private bedroom and then we had two baths it was just one the little bathroom were the thing that really bothered me because I felt real closed in
[speaker002:] well mobile homes have changed a lot probably since you had one ours is wood sided ours is wood sided
[speaker001:] that was in the seventies uh-huh
[speaker002:] and it has uh a traditional V top roof
[speaker001:] I'm sorry
[speaker002:] and uh it's nine hundred and eighty square foot one two bedroom one bath
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] rooms are nice sized well you can imagine nine hundred eighty square foot broke up into two bedrooms one bath it's it's comfy
[speaker001:] so have have you got it underpinned
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] are you required to by law
[speaker002:] I don't know whether it is or not
[speaker001:] we were down here
[speaker002:] it was already setup when we bought it
[speaker001:] yeah  well I bet it's not bad
[speaker002:] oh yeah it's wood sided it has sheetrock everywhere and uh you know so it's quieter than you remember mobile homes to be
[speaker001:] okay but how much is yours when we bought ours we were paying two uh three hundred and twenty nine dollars
[speaker002:] oh our payments are like two twenty
[speaker001:] for how many years
[speaker002:] fifteen
[speaker001:] oh so it was still a lot cheaper
[speaker002:] and uh what
[speaker001:] so it was still a lot cheaper than what we did because ours is thirty years  and we bought one of the cheapest houses you know a tract house
[speaker002:] yeah oh yes a mobile home's a heck of a lot cheaper and well actually whenever we got ours we picked it up used you know three or four years used and uh
[speaker001:] which probably didn't make much difference
[speaker002:] well yeah did
[speaker001:] have a on it
[speaker002:] no no no what I meant not in quality what I meant was four years equity costs five hundred dollars
[speaker001:] in the price gee nice huh that sounds good
[speaker002:] so you know there's not that much time left on the loan and
[speaker001:] so if the economy gets better are you going to get another one another house
[speaker002:] I don't know
[speaker001:] no
[speaker002:] uh to tell you the truth right now it feels kind of comfy to have our mobile home and have it so close to paid for you know I need to pickup and move somewhere else somewhere else is easy
[speaker001:] but you wouldn't take that mobile home right
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] you would
[speaker002:] sure absolutely
[speaker001:] it'd be cheaper to move that than buy another one
[speaker002:] oh absolutely when I you know when you talk about the deal like I got yeah yeah it would be cheaper uh especially if it were a paid move or something you know there's some paid moves occasionally
[speaker001:] TI would pay move you
[speaker002:] I don't know but they did when I when I moved up here so they might want to move away
[speaker001:] so how many years you been up there
[speaker002:] uh six or seven
[speaker001:] do you snow ski
[speaker002:] uh a little bit little bit mostly I just love walking the mountains driving in the mountains
[speaker001:] it's real pretty I went rock climbing one time
[speaker002:] oh that's exciting
[speaker001:] my friend talked me in that I'm a real um scaredy when it comes to heights but once we got on top of the rocks it was quite