The other agent is trying to use my disability as a reason for us to come up on the price of the house, because it happens to be a ranch.

Errr, I kinda want to run off copies of fair housing and ADA regulations, roll 'em really tightly, and beat some sense into that other agent.

I would totally watch The Red Pen of Death. I wouldn't want to be a character in it, though, because of my propensity to put extra commas in things (beta reader for my monster fic and I went a few rounds, and not about the Oxford variety).

The Red Pen of Death - Dipped in the blood of the ungrammatical.

Th exact quote (except for my name) just for the record. TCG is not happy. "I understand that sj has special needs and the value of what the property can do for her is important."

"Not as important as the value of punching you in the face!"

"I understand that sj has special needs and the value of what the property can do for her is important."

The value of what my FIST can do to your FACE is also important. [ETA: Hah! askye and I are on the exact same page!]

Seriously though--people pick houses for reasons all the time, they have X number of kids so they want Y bedrooms, or need a garage, or need a fenced backyard for the dogs, or whatever. Unless your house is SERIOUSLY unique (theirs isn't, right? It's just the best one you've found), that's not a justification.

Yeah, that is some ignorant bullshit.

Unless you've got, like, Paulie Walnuts the realtor who's saying you're a nice girl and he wouldn't want anything else of yours to get fucked up...so we're gonna make a nice deal, because, hey, accidents happen.(Man, I miss Paulie. I still want one. But I don't mean porn.) Or maybe some place with full modifications, which really is hard to find(although, even so, could do without the subtle waft of Calvin Klein's Extortion.)

What asshats. A lack of stairs isn't "special," nor is needing same. If they've got a connection to the floo network, then they can jack up the price.

No it's not unique. It just happens to have a garage large enough for a washer and dryer. I can't drag laundry up and down from the basement. Other houses have garages too, so that is not something I intend to overpay for. It's also slightly bigger than other ranches we have seen but not by much.

"I understand that sj has special needs and the value of what the property can do for her is important."

"You should pay more for this house because you're disabled."