Mama Carol

I wish my son in law could see this and realize that you CAN do more than work and sleep. That's all he cares to do. GOOD FOR YOU!!! You can do it, too! Won't be easy but the rewards will make all of it worthwhile. Let us know when you graduate so we can all congratulate you.

Can't help you on the years but I believe it was before the industrial park went in. Hubby worked in the industrial park in the last 1980s and I think the Wendy's was already there. The industrial park was fairly new when he worked down there.

Excellent post!!

To make it simple, you can get either one BUT you can only get a tag for a vehicle that is in your name (it can be jointly owned, though). The placard is free and renews every 4 years. The tag is $20 and you renew it every year, though you do NOT have to get the certification from the doctor every year. The way it was explained to me, you don't have to recertify if it's a permanent certification. Here's a link to the DOR information about disabled person tags: http://motor.etax.dor.ga.gov/motor/plates/platesamples.aspx And here's a link to the form to obtain the disability certific

the problem with trying to sell your house now is that you compete with foreclosures. Not only do they drive down the value of your house but if a person can go down the street, pay 20-50% less and buy a foreclosure, it's difficult to compete with that. We had our rental house for sale in 2006/2007. The market was still doing pretty well but Austell had a lot of foreclosures. I think there were four on Humphries Hill Road alone. THAT was our competition. We were not willing to sell the house at 20% of asking price, because we didn't have to sell. We had ONE offer on our house after i

for the price of a regular plate, as well as ad valorem taxes due.

Excellent point about the placard. You don't have to drive or own a car to get one. To get a tag, the registered owner must have the disability certificate.

The "offenses" rarely tell a complete story either. I have eaten there and the food was good. I'm not big on that type of "Italian" food (don't care for Olive Garden either particularly). Hubby and I have talked about going but he isn't big on Italian food either.

I can't say beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is easy to hear of a family or friend's fatal accident on Pcom but I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt one of the most difficult ways to hear. When my brother was killed in an accident on I-285, about 9 hours after the accident the Cobb County police called my house. I was still living at home at the time. I answered the phone. The police officer told me that they had come to the house to notify us but could not find the house and that nobody on the street knew us. I found this strange since my dad had lived in the neighborhood since he was

If I hear that the "economy has been growing since the summer of 2009" one more time I think I'll scream. Maybe it has been growing but from what it was toward the end of 2008, it only had one direction to go and that was up.

the power, yes. The willingness, maybe not. And I definitely remember reading somewhere that the LEO has to SEE the person who is parking illegally and most LEOs do not want to confront someone and ask if they are disabled. We HAVE been over this numerous times.

According to the form MV-9D, the plate is $20 plus taxes that are due, just like a regular plate. And it has to be renewed every year, just like a regular plate. You just don't have to replace it. Per the DOR website: Cost to renew tag annually: $20 plus applicable ad valorem tax.

:rofl: :good: I so agree.

BTW, according to the form that has to be filled out, the placard must be replaced every four years. I went inside the tag office to get hubby's placard. I asked the procedure for replacing it in 2014. I was told that all he had to do was bring the old one in and get a new one. And please, do not kill the messenger. That is what I was told. If the procedure is different, then it's different!

My hubby got the placard in March of 2010. His tag was up for renewal in June. He didn't want to get a plate because even though he was disabled, he thought he might at some point be able to return to work, so he just got the placard. We moved it from one vehicle to the other, depending on which one we were in. This year when it came time to renew his tags, he got a plate for one car and kept the placard for the other. He just felt badly about putting a plate on both cars. When we travel, we take the car I drive, which is the car that has the plate. That way, we don't have to get to

well, yes. If the police can't go on private property to enforce it. Or WON'T go onto private property to enforce it. You know, kinda like the speed limit. I found a very interesting article in the Washington Post about the problems they have up there in DC and Virginia with disabled parking permits. YIKES!!! Makes people who don't need them parking in them at Walmart look like child's play. There is actually a black market for them up there.

Nope. Not true. The hanging tag is good for I believe four years. I would have to go look at the one in hubby's car. I *think* it expires in 2014, which would be four years from 2010.

I agree. If they hired him to do it, they should pay. If they didn't hire him and he just took it upon himself to act as spokesperson, they don't owe him a dime.

That only says he had a verbal agreement with the niece. It doesn't say that the family hired him as their spokesperson. At the time, I wondered if they wanted it or not. I hope he has witnesses who said they HIRED him to be their spokesperson. If not, he's probably out of luck. Personally, I don't think he deserves a dime of the money her family got. He didn't lose a family member.

I think if you read in that thread I posted a link for, you will see that someone mentioned they had tried to get the police to enforce handicapped parking on private property and the police would not. I was surprised by that because I thought they would anywhere. And they CAN. They just don't do it if it is on private property. Or maybe that's just Hiram. Shopping center parking lots are private, not public, and therefore, the police have little authority. In fact, if you Google "handicapped parking enforcement" or "enforcement of traffic laws on private property" you will see that (oft

they would pretty much have to look in through the back window. The seat backs are high enough you would have a very difficult time seeing it if you looked through the back windows.

Was he hired as spokesperson or was he self-appointed as spokesperson?

perhaps it matched the description of a stolen vehicle they were looking for. I think we've had this discussion before and someone else mentioned that if it was private property, the police could not enforce it. If you've ever been involved in an accident on private property, you know the laws are different about what the police can and cannot do. In fact, click on this thread: http://paulding.com/forum/index.php/topic/268973-handicap-parking/page__p__3434673__hl__%2Bhandicapped+%2Bparking__fromsearch__1#entry3434673 There is a lot of information there.

We turn the placard so that the name is only visible from inside the car.

IMO, there is no reason for other drivers to have to "verify" that the person is handicapped. If you question that someone you see parked in a handicapped spot might not be, call the police. Of course, if it's private property, there is nothing they can do but you will have called them. And again, NOT ALL DISABILITIES are obvious. My knee arthritis is not obvious, unless it's one of those days it flares up and I can barely walk. Hubby's spinal stenosis is not obvious unless it's one of those days that he can't walk without a cane. My mom, who looked a good 15 years younger than she