Housing, Its a Human Right (Part 3)

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It’s a bit of a challenge when you live on a hill, but my landscape architect and the designer were able to make it happen, and I have a lovely eight-foot-wide ramp sidewalk that leads to the front door. Since I can’t see these types of concepts when they’re drawn, unless a labor intensive process is executed to build a 3D model, it’s easier to take my ideas in my head and draw them out on AutoCAD, allowing me to show my representation of the layout on paper or PDF for what I wanted the house to look like. I got a gable I did not ask for and really couldn’t fix, a living room ceiling that was not sloped that was fixable for a “nominal” $2000 change fee, and a wall that was six inches too far over that I ended up finding and told the builder about but was completely ignored because it was already too far along in the process. It is real, and I have experienced it many times, which is why I have to enlist a host of friends, family and hired professional inspectors and engineers to work with me to ensure the project is being built to the requirements outlined in the contract. Some examples I encountered were yes/no buttons from my water company for electronic statements set up that couldn’t be operated by keyboard, a troublesome payment form that required a mouse for a simulated signature for trash service, and numerous inaccessible PDFs from my local government regarding tree ordinances.

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Deque Systems

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