...had to run to Pick&Save, and there's a bee randy new 3/4 ton, crew cab pickup, 4x4, lift kit, with the most expensive Western combination snowplow you can buy mounted on the front...with disabled plates on it in the handicap parking spot.A middle aged couple came out of the store got in, and off they went.How in the heck can a person be disabled and climb in and out of a truck THAT tall every day?

That may be considered a handicap and you'd be violating some laws with that.

My meager salary and less than meager savings were a big handicap.

Come to find out the next door neighbor having some kind of school/social group for handicap people meeting every day next door to my house.

My most recent SFR has a nice handicap ramp to the front door and bars/handles in bathrooms and stairs to help someone who is disabled.

Ask your attorney about that.Sometimes handicapped or elderly people have more difficulty in renting in rent controlled areas because they get a much greater pay off if they are forced to leave, lots of money. 

I also notice several sr living/handicap apartments in the area (between Cadillac, kalkaska and TC) that seem to have room that are very low rents (like $500-$600) but then I see 1 bed 1 bath apartments in TC for $1200 so hard to understand distance from TC how the rents decrease

We use a scoring system.Stated criteria, pretty broad since we pay the screening fees:Our Criteria:We do not deny housing for race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicap, sexual orientation, marital status, or familial status.We do deny housing to individuals:when the application is not complete or accuratewhere there is not sufficient income/resources to pay rent and livewhere there is poor prior tenancy: evictions, violations, damage to rental property, poorly handled move outs, amounts are still owing to landlords or utilities.

That is a huge handicap with future negotiations.

Secondly, we are in North Carolina and I am curious if, after she moves in, we would have to change anything regarding handicap accessibility.