Adult family homes for sale in Washington

Usually a handful of the properties at any moment across Washington, and they do not sit long. Worth being precise about what is on the market: I list the real estate. A DSHS licence is issued to a provider rather than to a building, so it never conveys with a property, and anything to do with the business itself is settled between the parties and their own advisers. There is no adult family home property type in NWMLS either, so these surface through keywords buried in listing remarks and they surface inconsistently. That is the search I run by hand each week.

It turns on your licensed bed count, your occupancy and your rates, and anyone quoting you a figure without seeing your numbers is guessing. What I can tell you is the property side, which is where most of the money is decided before you own anything.

An operating home sells at a premium over a comparable house, and the premium is not arbitrary: you are buying past the conversion, the permit review, the licensing wait and the months of carrying a property that earns nothing. Whether that is worth paying depends on whether you have more capital or more time.

A standard licence covers up to six non-related residents. Seven or eight needs enhanced DSHS approval, a sprinkler system and a track record of compliant operation. Six is the number worth planning the house around, because capacity is the revenue.

Training, background checks, the DSHS application and the annual per-bed fee, none of which I advise on. DSHS is the authority and covers it thoroughly. My half is the house, which is the half almost nobody writes about and the half that costs the most to get wrong.

Often, and the house you pick sets most of the conversion budget before you own it. Single storey, two bathrooms reachable without stairs, a level entry and hallways wide enough to turn a walker in. None of that is a filter on any portal, which is why this page exists.