[blparent] Advice: buying a house

Wed May 9 23:31:36 UTC 2012

Well, there is that.  I'm under water on my mortgage, which means at this 
point, I owe more on my house than I could sell it for in the market.  I'm 
lucky because, crowded as it may be, there's no reason right now why I can't 
just keep making the payments, and eventually, real estate values will go up 
again.  They usually do.  But if I had to move for some reason, I'd be in 
real trouble.  There's always a flip side.

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: "Kate McEachern" <kflsouth at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:19 PM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Advice: buying a house

> My advice about buying a house, don't.  The market is crap and I'm about 
> to walk from the house I bought ten years ago because after doing what was 
> advised I am in the hole.  Muy credit is crap, I am stressed out, and 
> unles you have a high income in my opinyen, its just not werth it.  People 
> think about the monthly morgage payment but never remember that you fix 
> the water heater when it breaks, you paint the walls, you get perments for 
> edxtra rooms, porches, new kitchen layouts, and you pay insherence on top 
> of the morgage.  You also have to pay propperty taxes that are not in your 
> morgage. You also have to keep in mind if your morgage is fixed or 
> flucshuates.
>
> Sary to be a drag but the stress, heartbreak, and investment when you make 
> les then high midle clas just is a dissaster waitting to happen.  I could 
> be wrong and you could do grate but buying is a gamble so be shore its 
> what you want.  And just as an aside, my blindness had nothing to do with 
> buying a home I brought a friend to look with me and I know sighted people 
> who did this to.  When your excited about buying you may make a rash 
> dission and a friend keeps your feet on the ground.
>
> Just my thoughts.
> Kate
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "jan wright" <jan.wrightfamily5 at gmail.com>
> To: "blparent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 7:52 AM
> 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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