[blparent] Advice: buying a house

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

I do a lot of container gardening.  I could have bought a house with a yard 
and either paid someone to keep it up or learned to do it myself, but I 
preferred not to.  I would rather spend my time on other pursuits.

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: "Jennifer Jackson" <jennifersjackson at att.net>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 2:13 AM
To: "'Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Advice: buying a house

> There are people who are blind that do the work on their houses and do all
> of the yard work including mowing. If you are interested in knowing more
> check out the blind handyman or the blind gardening lists.
>
> I have mown my own lawn, but prefer not to. :)
>
>
> Jennifer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Sheila Leigland
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:35 PM
> To: Jo Elizabeth Pinto; Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Advice: buying a house
>
> Finding someone to do yard work isn't easy. Friends and acquaintances want
> to help but it doesn't usually last long and you have to go by there
> scedules or lack there of and paying for a professional company for yard
> work is expensive and umfortunately some don't always do their best work
> because they figure you don't always know what is going on. I would like 
> to
> live in a world where things are done because you pay good money instead 
> of
> finding out that because of blindness you are taken advantage of but
> sometimes things like that do happen so we have to be vigilant.I'm not a
> pesimist but I've learned to be realistic.
>
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