[blparent] Advice: buying a house

[Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S]

Not only is this topic not blindness related, it isn't  even parent related. So you have two for two.

Gabe Vega 
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On May 9, 2012, at 4:52 AM, jan wright <jan.wrightfamily5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> First, I want to thank everyone who responded to my questions about
> bottles and johnny jumper things.
> We have a pretty consistent group of parents and child care providers
> who --- may not always agree, but give wonderful advice for each
> season of our lives. And, we are as diverse as any other parent group:
> from spiritual to not; from crunchy to progressive (those might not
> be opposites, but you understand what I mean); from babies to adult
> children; from stay-at-home parents  to working parents; ... etc.
> 
> So, I thought that I might post here about our "house buying" and ask
> for any tips and advice. I have done research, but, there isn't much
> from a blind person's prospective. Maybe there doesn't need to be:
> because maybe it is not any different from sighted people buying a
> house. But, I did have a couple of questions:
> 1. How did you choose your realtor? We have one of these, already, but
> wonder if we  shouldn't have looked farther. DH's boss said that his
> realtor would transport him to and from the prospective houses. Is
> that normal??? We find that this is one of the most difficult things
> to do because paratransit takes so long, we can only see one house
> per day.
> 2. Public transportation is not very good here in Indy. People from
> other cities have commented on how fragmented it is. And, there aren't
> many sidewalks in residential areas or down busy streets and ... ... a
> good shoulder is hard to find. [ARe those words to a country
> song?????]  (smile) But, we are trying to find a house that is close
> to a bus stop --- and a bus stop that would take DH to work and us
> downtown. Sometimes we find a house close to a bus stop, but the wrong
> bus stops there.
> 
> Any other advice????
> 
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