[blparent] Advice: buying a house

[Veronica Smith]

It is parent related, getting your child to school on a city bus. I feel
that when you buy a house, especially as a blind parent, you need to check
out what is available to you and you need to know what to look for.  It is
as important as knowing how to shop for your children, what kinds of snacks
you should give them and what kind of neighborhood yu should allow them to
play in.

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Subject: Re: [blparent] Advice: buying a house

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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