[blparent] Advice: buying a house

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Blindness related.  I rest my case.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Melissa Ann Riccobono" <melissa at riccobono.us>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:14 AM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Advice: buying a house

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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