[blparent] Advice: buying a house

[Veronica Smith]

My mother was a realtor as is my oldest brother and both of them always went
out of their way to pick up their clients and take them to each and every
house they were to see.   My mom and brother look at the neighborhoods for
the things their clients want, whether it be a school, stores or bus stops.
Some times though, you cannot find all you want.  
When I moved into this house, way before G was ever born or even thought of,
my thought was I was in a really good school district and that was important
and the city bus came up our busy road not too far away.  But over the
years, the buses were taken away and paratrasit, not available. 
I am still here and the schools are still great and we barely got the buses
back.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of jan wright
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:53 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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