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But it is the right thing to do. You want to be disability accessible. You want more customers. The best way to do that is to start planning. When you are choosing, ideally, your inspector would have a background in inspection, design, and construction. That means we have some excellent general contractors out there that could be excellent task inspectors or building inspectors as well. In order to get the legal benefits, the protections that are important, you want your inspection to be under that theory that is how you can get that 90day [inaudible] as you start to interview your inspectors,...

Constructive steps to remove the barriers. 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 profits. You may need to be saving money for the long te...

What you need to do is find out what your rights are, and if you need to make repairs or 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 clearly are no...

Also, you want to make sure that your task inspector has a relationship with an attorney. It could be beneficial to have that Legal Expertise readily at hand. The task inspector may have learned some useful information. It is also helpful if your task inspector knows the contractor because the contractor can provide you with a construction bid for what is going to take. So i want to leave you with some closing thoughts. One of them, as mentioned at the beginning be proactive. Do not wait for the letter. Get the inspection now. The second is keep really good records. [inaudible] they had actual...

That guide you on how you will be serving your property. The ada says a Certain Party of getting in the front door, but you are logical, you want your customers to access your services. Be that steps, be that ramps, if the door is not wide enough, if the landing is not level enough. Priority two is actually travel. Once you get into your business and start speculating the wits of your files. Access to all of your services. [inaudible] 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 yo...