Acquire Research™
Data that stateswhere it came from.
Original research on shared housing, property control and referral systems. Every figure published here carries its source, its method and its limitations — because the housing data most people rely on carries none of the three.
Research published by Acquire Group Homes™ is educational. It is not investment, legal, tax or licensing advice, and no finding here constitutes a determination about any specific property, market or model.
There is no research published here yet. That is deliberate.
The housing-education market is full of impressive-looking numbers with no stated origin. Publishing a study is slower than publishing a statistic, which is exactly why so few people do it. Until the first study clears its methodology review, this page describes what is being built rather than dressing up a figure we cannot stand behind. When something is published here, you will be able to see how it was produced.
Publication standard
Six rules every study here publishes under.
These are constraints, not aspirations. A study that cannot satisfy all six is not published — including one of ours.
Every figure carries its source
A number appears here only with its origin attached — a public dataset, a published document, or our own field observation, explicitly labelled as the third. There is no fourth category.
Method is published before findings
How a figure was produced is stated in the same document as the figure. A number whose method cannot be described is not published.
Limitations are stated, not buried
Sample size, geography, date range and what the data cannot support are stated up front. A reader should be able to tell what a finding does not prove.
No projections dressed as results
Where we model a scenario, it is labelled a projection and its assumptions are listed. Projections are never presented as observed outcomes.
Corrections are visible
If something published here is later found to be wrong, the correction appears on the document rather than as a silent edit.
Raleigh first, and labelled as such
Our field observation is concentrated in the Triangle. Findings drawn from it are marked local and are not generalised to other markets.
Research pipeline
What is being worked on now.
Listed with its status. Nothing is described as published until it is.
The Raleigh Shared Housing Opportunity Report™
A market study of shared-housing capacity, demand signals and referral-system structure across Wake, Durham and Orange counties. Methodology published alongside the findings.
- Population-level demand signals by county
- Referral organisation landscape and how placement decisions are made
- Property-owner economics for organisational tenancy
- Zoning and land-use variation across the Triangle
- Where the data is thin, and why
Shared Housing Economics: Break-Even Occupancy
A modelled look at occupancy thresholds across house sizes and populations, with the cost assumptions listed so a reader can substitute their own.
- Break-even occupancy by house size
- Cost category sensitivity
- Where operator assumptions most often fail
- Why the same house performs differently across populations
Referral System Anatomy
How a placement decision actually moves through an organisation — the decision points, the criteria, and where operators most often lose the placement.
- Mapping the decision chain inside placing organisations
- What organisations screen for, in their words
- Common disqualifiers operators are unaware of
- Documentation organisations say they need
For journalists and researchers
How to cite work published here.
Research is only useful if it can be checked. We would rather be cited accurately and corrected than cited flatteringly and never questioned.
When citing us
- Cite the specific document, not the platform generally
- Include the publication date — figures may be superseded
- Carry the stated limitations with the finding
- Distinguish our field observation from sourced public data
- Where a finding is local to the Triangle, say so
What to ask us for
- The underlying method, in writing
- Source documents for any figure we publish
- Chart files built from our data, in an editable format
- A statement of what the data cannot support
- A correction, if something we published is wrong
A standing offer. If you find an error in anything published here, tell us and we will correct it in the open rather than quietly. A research desk that cannot be corrected is not a research desk.
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Acquire Group Homes™ provides education, consulting, business systems and real-estate strategy. It does not provide legal advice, medical advice, clinical treatment, licensing determinations, tax advice or Medicaid eligibility determinations. Requirements vary by property, population, services, city, county and state — nothing on this page states or implies that any model is automatically legal in any jurisdiction.
Operators must verify zoning, licensing, occupancy, building/fire code, fair-housing obligations, insurance, resident-rights requirements and other applicable laws with qualified professionals before acquiring or operating a property. We do not promise "no license required," guaranteed Medicaid payment, guaranteed government contracts, guaranteed occupancy, "eviction-proof" agreements, or that any structure avoids zoning or lender requirements.
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