Lease Your Property to a Sober Living Operator

Three options. Standard is $49.99 a month with a three-month commitment, then month to month. Featured is $89.99 a month on the same terms and adds priority placement, a badge, an email blast to the operator network, and SMS lead alerts. Featured also includes the Owner Resource Library of eleven templates and tools. Full Service is $1,200 once, stays listed until the property leases, and adds the Owner Course, a floor plan review, an economic model for both sides of the lease, and hands-on placement support.

Standard gets your property seen. Featured adds the Owner Resource Library, the templates and tools to assess the property, run your own numbers and prepare the lease. Full Service adds the Owner Course and does the analysis with you: a Floor Plan Review and an Economic Model for your building.

Standard and Featured go month to month after the third month, so you can stop whenever you want. The Full Service Listing stays listed until the home leases, with no additional fee. We do not guarantee a lease. No listing service can, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing at your market.

The operator does, and that is the point of the structure. Operators set admission criteria, enforce house rules, and handle discharge. You are the landlord to the operator, not to the residents, and you have no role in who is admitted.

A sober house is an occupied home, so it sees the same wear any tenancy produces. Operator leases are commonly written so the operator handles maintenance directly and returns the property in the condition the lease specifies, and most recovery homes run tighter house rules on damage, smoking, and guests than a typical residential tenancy.

Featured and Full Service owners get the Pre-Certification Facility Walkthrough, the inspection your operator will run, and lease templates with inspection and condition clauses as a starting point for your attorney.

Usually not, and this is better settled law than most owners expect. Housing for people in recovery is generally protected under the federal Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, which limits how a city can treat a recovery residence differently from any other family use of a single-family home. Local rules and inspection requirements still vary, and we go through the specifics of your municipality with you before the property is listed.

Neighbors sometimes object when a recovery home opens, usually through a complaint to the town. The operator runs the house rules on guests, parking and noise, where most day-to-day concerns get settled. If a complaint becomes a town decision, the Request for Reasonable Accommodation template in the Owner Resource Library is a starting point for your attorney.

You keep the owner policy on the building. The operator carries liability and contents coverage for the business it runs inside it, and the lease names who carries what. Featured and Full Service owners get the Insurance Requirements Checklist: what you carry, what they carry, and the gap that catches people.

The lease is between you and the operator, so your remedies are the ordinary ones for a commercial tenancy in your state. The three agreement templates in the Owner Resource Library include guaranty and default provisions, as starting points for your attorney. If the relationship ends, we can put the property back in front of the same operator network, which is a much shorter search than starting over on the open market.

Bed count first, then location, layout, and what an operator in that market can realistically collect per bed. That is why the floor plan matters. A property that sleeps eighteen supports a very different rent than the same square footage laid out for eight, and the number we arrive at is the one an operator can actually pay for years.

It depends on your property’s bed count, location and layout. Featured and Full Service owners get the Financial Model Template to run the numbers on their own building.

People and organizations that run sober living homes for a living. Some are established operators expanding into a second or third house, some are opening their first. Every one of them is taking on the residents, the staffing, and the compliance work, which is the part you are handing off.

A multi-year lease, most often triple net or modified gross, which shifts the operating costs and day-to-day responsibility to the operator and leaves you with the rent. If you want to stay closer to the property, a modified gross lease or a contract operator agreement keeps more control with you. The Owner Resource Library includes a template for each structure, as a starting point for your attorney.

No. Plenty of the properties operators lease were never sober houses. A single-family home with enough bedrooms and bathrooms, or a two or three family, is often a simple conversion.

Then you are the most common case we see. Leasing the property to another operator moves you from running a program to collecting rent, and you keep the real estate and its appreciation.