Doing Childcare in Second Home

[Country Kids]

Depends on whether it is legal to do so in your state. In Utah, you must reside in the home you do daycare in.

We owned two homes and so we let our son live in one and we also did daycare there. He was the licensee.

I lived in another home.

We finally re-modeled our current home's basement and our daycare is self-contained down there with a separate entrance etc. We then sold the other home and our son moved back in with us.

For the license I would be obtaining I don't have to live in the home.

If I was a registered provider you have to live in the home.

[daycarediva]

I would do this and would snag the house up the street in a heartbeat for it but you have to live in your home unless you're a center in my state (which would have to be small, maybe 3 'classrooms' since it's a 3b 1b ranch). I crunched the numbers once, the house is a foreclosure and needs some interior work, but dh could gut it and put in new floors in a few weeks. Between the issue of employees, the additional children/tours, the additional mortgage payment.... yuck.

Now I just want out of daycare all together.

[Country Kids]

I just found out it only has one heat source which is only in the living room-a gas fireplace There is no heat to any part of the house! Our realtor said it will be hard to finance.

The owners must have known as they want cash only so they must know it will be hard to sell.

[daycarediva]

Does it have a basement? What's the square footage? Gas/electric ran to the property?

It wouldn't be hard (or even that expensive) to have a furnace, duct work and vents installed.

[Country Kids]

No basement-small crawlspace.

Square Footage is 1100

Heat is gas, stove is gas but washer dryer is electric I believe.

[KSDC]

I know someone who used to do daycare in a separate home. She loved it. I remember her specifically commenting on the fact that during inspections she didn't have to have someone going through the private areas of her home.

[ColorfulSunburst]

In CA they don't let us do the childcare in a second home. Regs say we must reside in the home.

the same rule is in NY.

[Country Kids]

Well having it in a second home isn't going to happen

I just can't manage to come up with the down payment for the house. It was a great thought, dream but time to move on. It's just hard because it is three houses from me so I always have to drive by it and I can see the backyard from mine and keep picturing all my stuff there.

Everyone have a great day!!!