Or is it the price one pays to elevate the 'fear factor?'

The actors involve in the transaction can help you and elevate you to greater heights.

Brandon, you could hire a door knocker to hand out fliers and give an elevator pitch/question.  

I don't mean completely..but don't launch into your elevator pitch, don't read from the pre-made script you have.

Laud wants a site plan, a floor plan, elevation, and a wall section for intake (but I don't know what that wall section intake thing means).

Then we were chatting by the elevators on the way out.

@Alvin SylvainEven in California the landlord is required to make reasonable accommodations and allow the tenant to make modifications at their own expense as long as the restoration back to the original construction will not be an unreasonable expense to the landlord.Ripping out a second floor ramp or elevator will definitely fall into the unreasonable expense to a landlord. 

Is there any smokeless cigarette smell nastier than when a smoker comes in from a smoke break and gets in the elevator you are already on?

In California all multi unit buildings with elevators need all units to be adaptable.

Best scenario in my opinion with the least headaches could be to sell that home and move the equity into a 400K home that is paid for in full, this will elevate a lot of stress and give him time to retool and overcome the rotten economy forced upon us.