[Electronics-talk] Accessible Stove/oven

[Gerald Levy]

You know the old expression, beggars can't be choosers.   Here in New York 
City, landlords really don't care diddely squat what a prospective tenant 
thinks.  If a prospective tenant doesn't like the way an apartment is 
furnished, then the landlord will simply find somebody else who does. 
Landlords always have to clout to get what they want.  A prospective blind 
tenant has little or no bargaining position, and in fact, should consider 
himself lucky that a landlord will rent an apartment to him at all.  And 
don't even think about buying a co-op or condo, because most co-op and condo 
boards will reject a prospective blind buyer as "undersirable".  These 
boards can reject a prospective buyer for practically any reason.  There was 
one case a few years ago in which a woman was allegedly rejected by a co-op 
board because she was apparently so ugly that the board felt that her 
presence in the building would be a distraction to the other tenants and 
would diminish the building's property value.  Can you believe this?  Only 
in New York.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reese" <atlanticstar1 at gmail.com>
To: "Frida Aizenman" <aizenman at earthlink.net>; "Discussion of accessible 
electronics and appliances" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Accessible Stove/oven


> This is why you must always do your homework before ever moving into an
> apartment or house.  I will never take a place by where the stove's top
> burners are those flat kind I have seen before.
>
> Sometimes we accept an apartment where we know something is in accessible
> and think somehow we can make it work when in fact we already know it 
> won't.
> I don't think its reasonable to ask the land-lord to replace the flat top
> stove for a 4 burner stove and I have yet to move in.  Now after seeing 
> the
> apartment if the land-lord were to ask me, why I refuse to take the place,
> I'll be more than happy to tell him/her so.  Now after that, if they agree
> to replace the stove, then we have a an agreement we both can be happy 
> with.
>
> Reese
>
>
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