[blparent] Advice: buying a house

Wed May 9 18:31:57 UTC 2012

If a blind parent is seeking for a home for their family where they are
going to parent their children than it is most certainly a blindness related
topic. I'm sorry that any topic that doesn't interest you is off topic and
not allowed. I think you are the first person I know with a computer or
phone that doesn't have a delete key. Use it if you aren't interested in our
topics. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:40 AM
To: Jo Elizabeth Pinto; Blind Parents Mailing List
Cc: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Advice: buying a house

There are other appropriate list servers hosted by the nfb that are more
appropriate for these topics. This is a blind, parenting list it is a list
for parents were blind or have blind children in regards to parenting.
Simple as that. Are you saying just because a bunch of wine people agreed to
talk about the topic, that makes it blindness related? Pitiful.

Gabe Vega
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On May 9, 2012, at 8:26 AM, "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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