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Your Local Rules Regarding a Group Home License

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How Do I Get a Group Home License in My Area??

Do I NEED to Get a Group Home License??

 

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One of the main excuses we get from people who believe they can’t start a Group Home in the next 30 – 60 days usually goes something like this:

“That won’t work in my area. In the state of (Blank) you are required to (Blank) before you can open a Group Home.”

That second blank is usually filled in with “Get a Group Home License” which will then send them down a very time consuming, costly, and confusing process researching how to become a licensed facility.

Look, if you have the money, time, and desire to become licensed there are some advantages, but it is not REQUIRED.

Follow the same rules and regulations that EVERYONE ELSE needs to follow…and your area can’t regulate your home just because you are housing seniors, males, females, former inmates, veterans, all of the above, or any other segment of the population. If they do…or try to…they would be in direct violation of the FEDERAL Fair Housing Act!

So what are some of these local Group Home laws you need to follow and where do you find them?

Every city, county and state is going to have different “property code” where they regulate everything down to the length of the grass you can have! You can usually find the full code by searching the following terms:

“(BLANK) County Property Code” or something similar

There are some rules that could hinder your business or limit the amount of income you can make, so we definitely recommend finding these out!

1) How many tenants per square feet?
This will vary depending on location, but in general you should be able to get at least 2 people per bedroom as long as it is not a very small house. Check out THIS ARTICLE for more details.
2) Are there any maximum occupancy laws?
Some areas like SAN ANTONIO do not allow more than 6 unrelated occupants to live in a single family home. If you are in an area like this, it might make sense to focus on Three-Bedroom homes.
3) Do they limit outsourced care?
PENNSYLVANIA is the only place I’m aware of with laws like this, but you cannot used outsourced licensed care for more than three occupants in a home. So the obvious answer to this is limit the amount of tenants that need licensed care! You can focus on functioning adults to avoid this altogether.
4) Is there any additional “Registration” required?
In places like PHOENIX and possibly LOUISVILLE (not sure of the outcome on this one) they want “boarding homes” to be “registered”. This involves minimal paperwork, small fees, and they struggle with enforcement since this can be contested with Federal law.
Click on any of the states or cities above to see examples and if you know of any in your area please send to me!

Now 3 and 4 could probably be contested under the Fair Housing Act, but they are not extremely restrictive.

The main point is….

A GROUP HOME LICENSE IS NOT REQUIRED!

Follow the same rules any other housing provider needs to follow (AKA Landlord), do not perform care that requires a license you don’t have, don’t advertise that you do if you don’t, and keep up with your home just like anybody else is required to!

The difference….YOUR home will be generating THOUSANDS per month in income while helping out those who are in need!

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Can You Get Paid For Being a Caregiver?

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Did you know that the average assisted living Caregiver  is paid $4,500 per month per bed??

THIS IS BIG MONEY! However, we don’t personally go after this market. Why? There are a number of reasons…

One of them is that there are only a small number of people out there that have $4,500 or more to shell out to a Caregiver to help their loved ones. That’s over $54,000 per year! Plus to collect the full $4500 ticket you need to be providing the care yourself or with your staff, and you need to be a licensed facility. This process will take about 6-12 months of full time effort to get through, and THOUSANDS of dollars. So do you have to turn these folks away if you are not licensed?? NO! Keep reading for our secret 🙂

We target the “affordable” space!


We charge anywhere from $550 – $1,500 per month per bed. Do the math on a 4-6 bedroom home with TWO beds per room!  Affordable DOES NOT equal “not profitable”

We do this because after people “hit the trail” and begin searching around they quickly realize there are very few affordable Caregiver options! They breathe a sigh of RELIEF when they find our WEBSITE (CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW YOU CAN GET THE SAME ONE!)

Think about it, if you went to google, called 20 locations with Caregivers and each place cost between $2,500 and $6,500….and then you found one for $675 wouldn’t you be stoked??

We are able to provide quality, affordable housing in an all-bills paid environment like we teach in our FREE 10 PART COURSE by following all the simple rules we outline to my coaching clients. We also implement a few secret government programs where we can!

Here is a list of some of the secret government programs we use to help keep our profits sky-high!

PACE – Programs of All-Inclusive Care For The Elderly

This program is meant to keep medicaid and Medicare eligible people out of nursing facilities. Think in-home care, ADL care, chaperoned transportation and more. It is available in 32 states (also called LIFE in some states – Living Independence For The Elderly)

JACC

One of our FREE 10 PART COURSE clients in New Jersey told us about a program they use called JACC (Jersey Assistance For Community Caregiving). Basically the state gives people 60 or older access to a free caregiver!!

Veteran-Directed Care

This program is available in about 1/3rd of VA medical centers. The client gets roughly $2,000 per month to pay a professional or or family member or friend (YOUR GROUP HOME!) to help them out with a wide-variety of needs! This program is available in 38 states. We highly recommend this program to our FREE 10 PART COURSE students focused on disabled veterans

Volunteers

People WANT TO HELP! Local universities, nurses in training or colleges that have social work programs! Enlist these folks to help!

Meals on Wheels

Call them! They will come over, help your people and bring food!


Crowdfunding

Listen to our MOST RECENT PODCAST HERE or wherever podcasts are streamed under “Group Home Riches”. In episode #6 we speak to one of our FREE 10 PART COURSE that was short on start up costs BUT LARGE with hustle! He found a motivated seller of a home and used a creative strategy to acquire the property with very little money up front, then pitched his idea to local construction companies, food vendors, and even Home Depot to help out with his first home….he even made the local news! Look you are solving a HUGE problem and if people see that you are the real deal, they will be happy to help! Don’t take our word for it…go listen for yourselves!
Home Health 🙂

This is Our secret sauce! Build relationships with multiple home health companies in your area! They will do the heavy lifting for you (no pun intended) and they will make plenty of money in the process. Trust me, they want access to your Group Home!! This is how you can accommodate tenants that require licensed care, without going through the licensing process yourself!

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You Need a Business Plan For Your Transitional Home

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There are many misconceptions about what is needed to open your first Transitional Home.

Before we get into that…let’s first handle some common misconceptions and go over what is NOT necessary for your…

You DON’T need any of the following for your Transitional Home:

  • A License
  • A lot of Money
  • A Big Commercial Building
  • Good Credit
  • Employees
  • A Non-Profit
  • Political Connections
  • A Government Grant
  • Permission From The Government
  • Expensive Upgrades to Your Home

Really all you need is a home, some furniture, some hustle, and a PLAN for your Transitional Housing Business to set yourself up for success. You could find a home and get it ready on your own, but without a plan you are setting yourself up for failure. In order to be successful…

You do NEED to know the following:

  • How To Acquire a Property With Little to NO MONEY down
  • How to Find Organizations That Will Ring Your Phone Off the Hook With Tenant Referrals
  • How to Find Tenants on Government Assistance For Housing
  • How to Get a Guaranteed Payment Every Month and STOP Chasing Tenants Down For Your Rent
  • How to Operate Similar to a Hotel and Avoid the Eviction Process
  • How to Set Up an Email Marketing Campaign
  • What Effective Marketing Material Looks Like For This Type of Business
  • How to Put Business Systems in Place to Make Your Life MUCH Easier
  • What a REAL Business Plan Looks Like So You Can Take Your Business to the Next Level!
This is where are FREE 10 PART COURSE comes into play! It will give you all of the needed information and more!

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What’s in it for you to run one of these homes? Why wouldn’t you just provide housing to a traditional renter? Watch this video to see the amazing outcome this business model will have on your community AND your wallet:

 

The Group Home That Saves Lives

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Want To Start a Sober Living Group Home?

This Inspiring Story Will Motivate You to Start Today!

 

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We recently highlighted an article that disparaged unlicensed Group Homes. In it, they wrote of one owner in particular that overcrowded his homes, encouraged his tenants not to take their prescribed medication and took advantage of his tenants.

There was no mention of the countless other Sober Living Homes in the area that provided great service and helped the community!

Today I want to highlight an article showing the positive, life changing effects that a Group Home can have on it’s tenants. Probably some of the reasons that brought YOU to us in the first place!

From the article above:

“That is what the non-profit house has done for the last 45 years. It has welcomed the addicted, the scared and the lost. The historic two-story white house in the Highland neighborhood has helped thousands of women not only find freedom from their addictions but gain control of their lives.”
“Oakwood achieves this by starting with the basics, which means following the rules, that the residents are expected to follow. There are a lot and they are not easy, especially for those who have lived their lives in the chaos of addiction.”
“We were all in the same boat, we were all learning to live sober,” Richie (tenant) said.”
“Little by little, she was discovering who she was without the drugs. She knew her daughter needed her more than ever and realized what she had been missing out on by not taking responsibility.”
“Since Ritchie left in October of 2016, her life has been a series of accomplishments, proving that it has been the right path. She has an apartment where she lives with her daughter.”

In addition to the Grants, Donations, and revenue from their banquets, the Oakwood home also charges each tenant $80/week.

They do not release how much they receive from Grants, Charity etc. but my guess is that is much more than the revenue charged to their guests.

The home has been open for 45 years, has a non-profit set up, and most likely has a ton of connections in the area.

You do not need that to get started!

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Find Out What License You Need To Start a Sober Living Group Home

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TRICK QUESTION

THERE ISN’T A LICENSE REQUIRED TO START A GROUP HOME!

 

The above article writes about Sober Living Home operators in a negative light…the angle that most press takes unfortunately…but it highlights some of the issues that we write about a lot.

There will ALWAYS be some back and forth between businesses and the Government. In every industry…not just housing. The Government is always going to want more power, regulations and the revenue that comes with that…and businesses are going to want more freedom. Group Homes are no different.

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Is there an argument to require every single person that wants to rent out rooms to people to have a license? Sure!

To add to that argument, “Group Homes” could be dealing with people trying to get off drugs, transitioning out of homelessness, coming out of prison….can there be some issues??

Of Course!!

To counter that…

There can be with apartments too...And licensed homes…And hospitals…and on and on

The articles take a greedy Group Home owner that puts his residents in overcrowded homes, living in squalor, not providing the care that was advertised and getting rich while doing it.

Guess what?

THIS IS ILLEGAL ALREADY. And should be! Any one that doesn’t keep their property up to code or advertises falsely deserves to be shut down!

Is requiring every home to be “licensed” going to guarantee a living situation where nothing goes wrong or everybody that gets involved provides tremendous service?

I could go pick awful stories about LICENSED homes all day.

No matter where you stand on the issue of whether or not Group Homes should be licensed or not, it is important that you receive accurate information!

We get so many people that think a license is REQUIRED. IT IS NOT. Take a look at some of these quotes from an editor that is NOT a fan of unlicensed Group Homes….

“Operators face few legal requirements, which allows pretty much anyone to open up a sober home.”
“It’s difficult to regulate sober homes, and that’s partly because of existing federal antidiscrimination rules.”
“Residents of these houses, as a group of disabled people living together, are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act.”
“Under state law, sober homes are not considered treatment facilities and thus are not subject to licensing requirements.”
“The LUCRATIVE BUSINESS of so-called sober homes — where individuals recovering from substance-use disorder live in a supportive residence free of drugs and alcohol — has come under increased scrutiny across the nation.”


A couple highlights….you are protected by FEDERAL LAW which trumps state law, and it is a lucrative business!

So do you want to start a business by housing people trying to become sober? Or any other segment of the population? Or just a general home for people looking for affordable housing or a Group Home environment?

START NOW! There’s nothing holding you back!

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Government Programs To House Veterans in Your Group Home

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Can you imagine bringing in $1500 -$3000 per Group Home bedroom while helping to solve a huge national crisis at the same time?

That’s exactly what Joann West does with her Group Home, read about her and the Medical Foster Home Program below:

“The $20.7 million-per-year program provides housing and care for more than 1,000 veterans in 42 states and Puerto Rico, serving as an alternative to nursing home care for those who cannot live safely on their own. Veterans pay their caregivers $1,500 to $3,000 a month, depending on location, saving the government about $10,000 a month in nursing home care. It has been difficult to scale up, though, because the VA accepts only foster homes that meet strict qualifications.
For the veterans, it’s a chance to live in a home setting with caregivers who treat them like family. For the Department of Veterans Affairs, the program provides an option for meeting its legal obligation to care for ailing, aging patients at significantly reduced costs, since the veterans pay room and board directly to their caregivers.”

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Read Full Article Here and More info on the program HERE
Another program is the HUD-VASH program..
“Veterans are using 138 of the 190 vouchers. Twenty-four veterans in Boise have vouchers, but can’t find apartments. The veterans are living in shelters, on the streets, or “couch surfing,” staying with friends until something opens up, said Anna Johnson-Whitehead, health care for homeless veterans program manager at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Twenty-eight more “open” vouchers are available for veterans to use.”
THIS IS WHY YOU ARE NEEDED!!
Read more about the HUD-VASH program HERE
These are just 2 programs where the Government is doling out MILLIONS to help house veterans. But many vets do not qualify for these VA benefits…and your home might not either.

There are still a ton of other programs, charities, and non-profits out there…as well as vets struggling to live off of SSI.

Follow the marketing techniques in our FREE 10 PART COURSE (CLICK TO SIGN UP TODAY) to fill your home, then scale! It’s really that simple..not EASY..but simple!

You don’t need a license, permission from the Government, a ton of employees, or a lot of money…in fact…we can show you how to start with NO MONEY of your own!

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6 Figures From a Group Home Business You Can Feel GOOD About

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How 1 Woman Earns 6 Figures, Helps Her Community & Stays True to Her Faith With her Group Home

 

Group Homes where the owners do not have a license often get a bad rap in the news.


Typically, if you google any of those terms you’ll get a plethora of headlines about Group Home owners that leave their tenants in squalor, perform activities that require a license they don’t have, or just plain false advertise about their services.

THIS IS ILLEGAL AND YOU WILL DESERVEDLY BE SHUT DOWN IF YOU DO ANY OF THESE

BUT…….


Every once in a while, you’ll get an honest story that explains how the majority of Group Home owners operate. They are just honest, hard working folks running a business they can feel good about!

Below is an excerpt from one of these examples. The story is mostly written from the point of view of the tenants. We want to highlight Amy though, who is the owner.

She is not a FREE 10 PART COURSE member….that we know of….but she is doing exactly what we teach. In a nutshell, market to organizations that serve your target market (like LA Family Housing in this example), set your home up for roommates so it is affordable to your tenants and profitable for you, provide GREAT service, and collect a nice guaranteed check from those organizations like LA Family Housing, or the Government (SSI in this example).

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From the article:

“The home is owned and operated Amy Bacashihua, a woman who ran group homes for the elderly most of her life. She currently has ten tenants and beds at a base rate of $1,000 a month – but has a policy of leniency motivated by her Christian faith.

She’s giving the Valentinos a significant break on the rent. LA Family Housing are giving them supplementary assistance for a couple months until the couple can save money. She also accepts rent by way of Social Security or disability insurance.

A welcome sheet and mission statement for the home calls it a “collaborative housing program” and “a never-give-up experiment to reduce homelessness among a diverse group of people in the area who are unable to afford housing by themselves.”

Tenants do not sign a lease but must have some form of monthly income, stick to two to a room and “follow a set of rules, including doing chores and attending counseling sessions.” Bacashihua, who lives at the home, said she sometimes struggles to manage behavior issues related to substance abuse.

“I do it because I have hope that they can get out of this situation,” she said from outside the home Tuesday, suggesting the model is part of a growing network of shared low-income housing serving formerly homeless people.”


You can read the full article HERE, and to get started on YOUR path to a business you can feel good about, sign up for our FREE 10 PART COURSE! 

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Harvard/Yale Business School Grad Invests in Group Homes

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The Next Big Trend in Business & How You Can be a Part of it With Group Homes

 

We were sent some information about a new investment opportunity recently. One of the founders graduated from Harvard business school, with another degree from Yale for fun. He’s founded and managed companies that have done over a BILLION dollars in revenue and is excited about this new opportunity that YOU can be a part of?

What is this new, billion dollar idea??

Co – Living

And What is that?

It’s another term for roomates basically.

And why is all the smart money pouring into this industry? Let’s take a look at some numbers that Harvard Graduates, Silicon Valley Startups, and Savvy Real Estate Investors dig into…..

Living with roommates is not new. So why is it booming now?
 Rents are up, income is down
 38% of households spend over 50% of
income on rent, a 19% increase from 2001.
 Nearly two-thirds of these households had
less than $400 cash in the bank
 Shared housing is on the rise
 Nearly 32% of American adults lived in a
shared household in 2017.
 Homeownership rate is at 25-year low.
 Psychological and technological tipping point
 Tech tools, e.g., remote utility monitoring,
allow owners to manage complex tenancy.

Apply this type of thinking to your Group Home Business! The demand for this type of housing is not going to go down anytime soon. You can use this to your advantage, and help people out who are in need at the same time. Whether it’s sober living, seniors, transitioning homeless, aged out foster care, all of the above….whatever the niche you want to serve, Group Homes are another type of “Co-Living” that will soon be all the rage.

Chances are, if you’ve looked into possible “side-businesses” to start you’ve come across a TON of house flippers, real estate agents, stock market gurus, people selling stuff on amazon/ebay, shopify…etc. etc. Have you heard a lot of people talk about this yet? That’s a good sign. That means you’re ahead of the curve 🙂

Ready to get started??

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1 Growing Niche You Can Target For Your Group Home

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1 Growing Niche You Can Target For Your Group Home

Here at Group Home Riches, we believe that one of the next big trends in business, a “Gold Rush”, is going to be in “Co-Living”

 

…or living with roommates. Whether it’s older singles living check to check, millennials with their first job out of college….or our target niche…people who are in need of a Group Home environment…the market for this type of living is EXPLODING.

Housing prices are rising, the overall cost of goods are soaring and wages for the most part have remained stagnant. So this leaves a HUGE segment of the population unable to pay for traditional housing!

The above article highlights one of the niches that we serve and you can too with your future Group Home: Seniors struggling on a very limited income. Or as the article puts it, “The Silver Tsunami” of senior homeless. Check out an excerpt below:

“Glow said rent prices rising is one of the main reasons seniors are getting evicted and becoming homeless. She noted Maricopa County has the second-highest eviction rate in the country.
“Another reason seniors are becoming homeless is because they’re living paycheck to paycheck,” Glow said. “Their Social Security is not enough to get by.”
CASS helps seniors find affordable housing. The problem is there’s a two-year wait for subsidized housing in the Phoenix metro area.”


This highlights exactly why people like YOU are needed across the country. If someone only get’s $1200/month to live on and rent with bills is $1000…where do they go?? Even if they wanted to only have $200/month to live off after paying their housing, would they even qualify for an apartment? 

The answer is NO and many of them end up on the street or in homeless shelters.

Our solution to this problem is really simple and easy to follow:
1) Find a home and get it set up like THIS
2) Market to organizations like CASS
3) Charge an affordable price for your area, say $600 per bed in this example
4) Get a guaranteed check every month…either from Non-Profits or Government programs, like SSI


In a 4 bedroom home you just solved 8 peoples’ problem and brought in $4800 in revenue!!

Now imagine if you had 3 homes like that. Imagine if you got 10 plus and hired a manager to replace yourself.

What would your life be like earning over 6 figures a year, not needing to do any of the day to day “job” activities if you didn’t want to, all while running a business you can feel GREAT about??

It really is that SIMPLE…not easy…but a simple process that anyone can do, no matter where you’re located or what your financial situation is. There are a lot more details that go into it, but that’s where we come in 🙂

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Negotiating With Landlords To Start Your Group Home

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Negotiating With Landlords To Start Your Group Home

 

What to Look For:

 

 

We had a FREE 10 PART COURSE member send us this home the other day. She asked if it was a lousy home for her first Group Home.

Lousy?

NO!! This is PERFECT!!

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If you’ve exhausted your own network of family, friends, and friends of friends that might have a vacant rental property for you to use than the next option is cold marketing to landlords. The good news is that there are hundreds if not thousands of people in your area that have problems that YOU can solve with a Group Home…

1) They have a vacant property

2) They would like to make more money

3) They would like to not get called about their properties

Where do you find these people? Every single “for rent” ad you see in your newspaper, Craigslist, Zillow etc. etc. all have THE SAME PROBLEMS!!!

Learn the material in the FREE 10 PART COURSE and you’d be much more confident in conveying that YOU are the person to solve these problems with a Group Home. Not only will you get landlords willing to lease to you, but many will want to partner with you! This can be a great opportunity if you are on a limited budget. 

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Let’s take a look at this ad, and I will highlight some keywords that make this the perfect prospect.

“House is not in best shape. Vinyl floors and laminate in poor condition. There is clear evidence of foundation problems. Landlord will not fix floors. House has nice back yard. Garage was converted to extra room. House is priced cheaply due to the lack of remodeling and its poor condition. On the positive side. The house is 4 bedroom with a extra room and has 2 bathrooms one with tub and the other with a tub.”

Do you think this homeowner has traditional renters blowing up his phone day and night to get into this gem? NO! He is MUCH MORE likely to negotiate on subletting..if they even have a policy like that. That’s really all you need. But the underlined sections are PROBLEMS. What do we always say? Want to make a lot of money? Figure out how to solve problems! These are some questions I would ask this homeowner to get an even better deal than is already presented…

Would you consider a rent to own situation?
Would you consider a discounted cash offer in return for a quick, “as-is” sale?
Would you consider rent credits if I were to make repairs to the home?
Would you consider a lower rental amount if I agreed to manage maintenance for this home?
I have a business that could generate approx $6000 per month from this home. I would do all of the marketing and managing. Would you be open to working out an agreement that might work out better for you than the asking price?

If you get a yes to ANY of these questions you’re in business! If you don’t understand why a YES to those questions are GOLD…than you need the FREE 10 PART COURSE!

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