HELP: I'm Disabled, I Need To Get Away From Parents, I'm In Debt, And Would Like A New Home Sales?
Q: HELP: I'm disabled, I need to get away from parents, i'm in debt, and would like a new home sales?
A:- Try www.aapd.com which is the American Association of People with
Disabilities. There are many links there that may be useful to you. There are
many programs that could help you.
There should also be state, county or local advocates for the disabled
which could help you directly with your situation.
Possibly the best thing you could do is contact a lawyer familiar with
disabled people and families.
A good manufactured home, set up to accomodate your disability, in a well
run MH park or subdivision would be a good choice of a place to live. I have a
sightless friend who is selling off his older, high maintainence home and
moving into a new HUD home in a good park.
I am disabled myself, though my disabilities ocurred in my adult life,
long after I had left my parennts' home. In my experience with younger disabled
people, with parents involved as caretakers, you really want to get a
professional such as a lawyer and/or social worker to evaluate your situation
and give you some options available to you in your area. The most devoted,
loving and well meaning family members can unintentionally hold you back from
reaching your true potential for independent living.
This will probably be a long and sometimes painful process, but I know
many individuals who have been able to gain their independence through AAPD and
other organizations.
- Neutrodyne may know exactly the extent of Arthur's disability.
I don't. If Arthur has limited mobility and has to use a wheel chair,
Neutrodyne, like others who are directly involved in the design, production,
and sale of mobile homes, is giving superficial and misleading advice to
members of this newsgroup. Neutrodyne's statement that "A good manufactured
home, SET UP TO ACCOMADATE YOUR DISABILITY, ---- would be a good choice of a
place to live." He fails to mention that the home would need to be designed and
built to accomodate a person with limited mobility. The fact is that very, very
few manufactured home plants even have designs that meet the federal
disabilities act code requirements. Most plants that agree to build such a home
on special order, charge an arm and a leg to actually design a home that meets
the requirements, or they simply modify existing plans to whatever degree the
foremen see fit and build them without approved plans. The results are usually
a joke. (The attempts to make bathrooms handicap accessible are usually
the worst foul-ups.)
Of course Neutrodyne knows (or should know) the problems associated with
designing and building a mobile home to meet the ADA requirements. He
reportedly works for a mobile home design approval agency (DAPIA). And no doubt
he will say that the plants that his agency does work for builds ADA code homes
all the time. If you are going to buy one of those, ask to see the report of
the inspection of the home that was done by a person who is authorized to do
ADA code inspections.
- That's why you'll note that the references I mentioned were for disability
advocacy and service groups. No home sales agents or manufacturers were
mentioned. I think it's pretty clear Arthur is very early on in his exporation
of his plans and he needs the kind of help in evaluating his options that he
can find through the AAPD.
>I don't. If Arthur has limited mobility and has to use a wheel chair,
>Neutrodyne, like others who are directly involved in the design, production,
>and sale of mobile homes, is giving superficial and misleading advice to
>members of this newsgroup.
I have never been and will never forseeably be involved in any way in the
design, manufacture, sale, advertising or promotion of any homes of any type in
any market for pay. I'm a