The letter. Get some additional time. They do not have elyria. 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 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 being available to you to make these repairs. They will aggregate that over time, so if you cannot make all your
Both because they have a common interest even in that. Obviously, they both have to make the space accessible either now or later, so it is best that they Work Together if they can. And Work Together to save us to hire a single lawyer. They can make repairs or what ever is in their agreement. Sometimes, when the tenant is the Small Business and does not have much cash flow, one way to do is to renegotiate the lease, where the cost is amortized over a longer period time. 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 a series of overlapping
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 term. But it is your obligation to plan for the long term as well as the short term. The ada has a set of priorities 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 ge
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. I heard the previous speaker make some good points about be a pro are the proactive about getting a task inspector before you get sued. I am f. Task inspector. If you have to cut heard the term thrown around, inspection created by our state senators, and it is really great information out there that i want to encourage everyone. I will not be able to go into extensive details, but i will be able to tell you a little bit of what is involved. The difference is in the California Building code. I can also give you tips on how to and specter appeared first of all, the program has an inspectors knowledge of the California Building code, and the reason why that is so important is because you have to comply with both. The california billing code is enforced when you get a Building Permit, and forced by the local building requirements. It says all New Build
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 being available to you to make these repairs. They will aggregate that over time, so if you cannot make all your repairs in year one, you can make some, but it may take you three or four years before you have to make the changes, but there is no defense to making the changes. Even if it is a historical building. That is not a defense. When i get involved, it is because 90 of the time, the tenant is the only one who gets the notice, though the notice is addressed both to the tenant and landlord. N