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The lawyers will sue you on these various labels. They all really say the same thing. The purpose of that letter is to establish damages. The first thing to do when you get that letter is to have your place it inspected. If you have done so, let the person know that you have had the place inspected. That makes the case go away. Certainly, it lessens the likelihood you were going to be sued. If you need more time, talk to the tenants or talk to the person suing you, sending you the letter. Get so...

Rearranging furniture. That is something we would call readily achievable, if you move your table out of the way to allow a person with a wheelchair access to your space. Restroom facilities only come into play after you have already made the entrance accessible and you have trouble accessible. Restaurants only have to be accessible if they are available to your customers and clients. And actually does not cover employee access to the restrooms. We have other priorities that come into play. [ina...

These notices . If you have not had your property inspected already, or if you do not do it following this program which i recommend you do you should have an inspection by an architect who is familiar with ada issues. We call all of these laws ada, but really ada is one aspect of the federal laws. There are five or six statutes, depending on the specifics of the case. There are a series of overlapping laws, all of which require essentially the same thing. Did different measures of damages and o...

It is so excess of for the amount of revenue being generated for your business, you have to make the way to look at it is lets say it takes 50,000 to renovate or remedy a the property for business. If your business is generating 100,000 a year in revenues, you clearly are not going to come up with 50,000 to make the changes, at least not in year one. But some of it you can do in year one. That percentage is not in a fixed amount. That usually gets 15 of your gross revenues could be assessed as b...

Readily achievable, if you move your table out of the way to allow a person with a wheelchair access to your space. Restroom facilities only come into play after you have already made the entrance accessible and you have trouble accessible. Restaurants only have to be accessible if they are available to your customers and clients. And actually does not cover employee access to the restrooms. We have other priorities that come into play. [inaudible] you want that inspected to come out before you ...

It is another way to spread the payments back to the less financially available person. Would you do if you get one of these notices . If you have not had your property inspected already, or if you do not do it following this program which i recommend you do you should have an inspection by an architect who is familiar with ada issues. We call all of these laws ada, but really ada is one aspect of the federal laws. There are five or six statutes, depending on the specifics of the case. There are...

The ada gives us some guidance on that. Readily achievable says it can be done quickly and easily without a whole lot of steps. Feasible means that it may require a lot more money, a lot more alteration to get that done. Under the ada, you need to be surveying your property and putting together both a short term plan and a longterm plan. The short term plan is going to be the readily achievable solution. The longterm plan could take 20 years. I do not know. Your business might not be making huge...

Remediations, do it because you are going to have to do it sometime during the course of litigation if there is a problem with access to your premises, so long as the renovations are readily achievable. If it does not so much cost that it is so excess of for the amount of revenue being generated for your business, you have to make the way to look at it is lets say it takes 50,000 to renovate or remedy a the property for business. If your business is generating 100,000 a year in revenues, you cle...