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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 not going to come up with 50,000 to make the changes, at least not ...

Attorneys fees generally run between 10,000 or 15,000. My colleague over year has learned that the attorneys fees are 4,000, and they have not got past mediation. There is not even discovery until you finish mediation. Ultimately, if you do not resolve these cases, it is a jury trial. Youre looking at the fees and costs that will be substantially in excess to 100,000. It is much better to look at your property today, have it inspected, and make the changes because this is a civil rights statute. It is the same thing as discrimination based on race, and it is treated the same way in the courts....

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...