Resources
Everything we publish, in one place.
Free guides, working tools and playbooks covering the whole business — the housing side, the real-estate side, and the referral pipeline that connects them.
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Ten guides covering the whole operation.
Each one is free. Each one is written to be used — checklists, worksheets and decision frameworks rather than theory.
50 Organizations That Can Fill Your Group Home
The six categories of organizations that place people into housing, and how to approach each one without paying for referrals.
Get it freeThe Group Home Licensing Decision Tree
The eight questions that determine where licensing lands — and the specific questions to take to your state regulator.
Get it freeThe Group Home Landlord Proposal Kit™
Twelve documents that turn a cold owner conversation into a professional master-lease proposal.
Get it freeThe Group Home Property Analyzer
The eight criteria that decide whether a house can actually do the job — scored before you sign anything.
Get it free100 Questions to Ask Before Leasing a Group Home
Six categories, one hundred verifiable questions — organized by where each one actually bites.
Get it freeThe Returning Citizen Referral Blueprint
How the Pre-Release Housing Pipeline™ works, and who to build with inside the reentry ecosystem.
Get it freeThe Sober Living Startup Checklist
Six areas to close before you open a recovery residence — policies, rights, testing, staffing and records.
Get it freeThe Deal Control™ Cheat Sheet
Eight property-control structures compared side by side: what you get, what you give up, what to verify.
Get it free10 Ways to Control a Group Home Without Buying It Conventionally
Ten legitimate structures that give an operator control of a property without a conventional bank purchase.
Get it freeThe Group Home Profit Calculator
The full input list — including the costs that show up in month four and the capacity you cannot legally count.
Get it freeWorking tools
Three calculators that run in your browser.
No signup, no email, no data leaving the page. Enter your numbers and see the arithmetic.
Group Home Deal Analyzer™
Underwrite a property: gross revenue, break-even occupancy, NOI, revenue per bed and maximum sustainable payment — with the arithmetic visible at every step.
Open the toolGroup Home Model Finder™
Answer questions about who you plan to house and what services you provide, and see which housing model your plan actually describes.
Open the toolDeal Control Finder™
Describe the seller's circumstances and rank the structures that may fit — for professional review, never as advice.
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The pages people read first.
Three different parts of the business. Most visitors need one of them more than the other two.
Housing models
Acquisition strategies
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Guides are free. The system is where it comes together.
Group Home Secrets™ is the complete starter operating system — population selection, licensing, economics, referrals, intake, house rules, screening, staffing and acquisition.
Important disclaimer
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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