[blparent] Advice: buying a house

[Melissa Ann Riccobono]

I think it is very normal for a real estate agent to take perspective buyers
from house to house.  At least that's what we did, and it worked out so much
better because we could see multiple houses in one day.  I think the
research you might want to do would be to learn a little more about the
buses, which ones are the "best" for you to be near, and where those buses
stop.  Then you can tell the realitor you want to look in this or that
specific neighborhood or area of town, instead of looking at houses simply
"near a bus stop" and then finding out it's not a good bus.  It might also
be nice to talk to friends and/or other blind people in your area to see
what neighborhoods they live in, what they like about those neighborhoods,
etc.  If you can walk to a lot of places like a grocery store, library,
park, etc. from a particular area, then it's possible you might trade that
off for the availability of a bus...  Although that's a very tough ddecision
to have to make.
	Just some thoughts.  The best of luck!
Melissa

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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of jan wright
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 7:53 AM
To: blparent
Subject: [blparent] Advice: buying a house

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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