I really appreciate you sharing with us your situation because it educates us all about the reality of how some people look at epilepsy.
I was wondering about something as far as renting or condo's. As far as if a person vomit's or dirties an area on the ground outside their apartment or condo? Is there a law or something you sign that words a tenants responsibilities in maintaining that area if they themselves make it not clean? Or, might something being said all hallways are maintained by the owners or the building in a particular way? You know where I'm going with this.
Also, I don't think in anyway anything should be posted saying they don't discriminate. Simply, because if they do, its against the law, right? If that should be posted, then every residence and business would have to post it also, right?
As far as money? I haven't a clue what you should ask for! One thing for sure, all you have been pushing forward with this, and he losses whatever the dollar amount is, I'm guessing he knows you could always take him back to court if you felt it was right to. But, because of the stigma, and the common misunderstandings of epilepsy, not sure the chances of winning allot will be possible. I'm guessing most people will look at the situation and think "I wouldn't want to be in the owners situation 24/7 (as far as cleaning up you vomiting), just my thoughts.
I give you allot of credit in going forward as you have. Interested in hearing others response to this. Take care, keep a smile on your face!
Steve
--- In epilepsy@yahoogroups.com, "fakeMacGyver" <nairbrian@...> wrote:
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> Readers may have known of my situation that began in March, where the landlord didn't want to renew the lease because of seizures (which she specifically stated in her letter to the Housing Authority, who help with my rent).
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> I had been in the process of filing a civil rights complaint and have been waiting for the results of that. Today, I spoke to the caseworker in charge who told me that they were about to complete the investigation and wanted to give me the opportunity to state a monetary amount that would be suitable to me to end the case. Because it's not a court with a jury and so-forth, he said that some people had said, for example, $100,000 in other cases but that was not likely. The man acts as a mediator between the two sides. He said in his experience, he's had requests as low as $300 and up to $8,000 on average.
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> So, I want to hear what others think. He said that he followed up on epilepsy classes/education and they do exist. That's something I think this landlady and 20-something kids who live in the building should do. He told me that, whatever I say, is all just requests and the 'respondents' might not agree to my terms. I would want them to be educated and specifically to not have the kids cleaning up the building. The landlady already wrote that she nor her family are qualified, so I think that there should be a cleaning service that is qualified -- for anybody who might have some sort of accident her.
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> Along with these, I surely would like a monetary amount because this was not a pleasant situation for me. I want to hear what others think:
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> - what would be an amount you'd be satisfied with?
> - what else do you think you'd want if you were in such a situation?
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> I'm also thinking that there should be a flyer posted that the building does not discriminate (even though they already did). In fact, there's already specific items that most buildings, I thought, have already posted about not discriminating.
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