renting to tenant with foster children - Landlord Forum thread 350180

renting to tenant with foster children by Jill (OH) on January 17, 2017 @07:06

I am interested in renting to a woman who provides foster care. All her references and credit check out fine. Is there a way to write into the lease a maximum number of children she can care for at one time. Does anyone here have experience in renting to people who provide foster care? Any advice?

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Re: renting to tenant with foster children by Jasmine (OR) on January 17, 2017 @12:14	[ Reply ]

You should check the local codes for child care - make sure you won't be in any kind of violation with a tenant business of childcare.

Re: renting to tenant with foster children by Garry on January 17, 2017 @14:04	[ Reply ]

Foster care is NOT childcare. There is a big difference between the two. Childcare is a business, of which someone is providing care for someone else's children on a daily weekly, or monthly schedule, and charging for it, in hopes to make a profit. Those kids go home each night with their parents. Foster care is having a child(ren) in your home for months or even years, and stay in the home 24/7, and a state pays the foster parent a certain amount each month to held pay for food, clothing, medicine, keep a roof over their heads, etc. The foster children are supposed to be treated as your OWN children until someone wants to adopt them (which could even be the foster parent). That all being said, the foster parent still has to follow all the local housing codes, which also includes the number of people per bedroom living in the same home. Foster parents and their children are to be treated as a FAMILY unit, which means you as a LL cannot discriminate against families with children, unless you want to get in BIG trouble with the Civil Rights people. (but you do not have to allow someone in your property if they want to do daycare in your unit).

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Re: renting to tenant with foster children by Anonymous on January 19, 2017 @00:11	[ Reply ]

Two pieces of advice: 1. Your city's occupancy code will dictate the maximum number of people allowed to occupy a dwelling of specific size/configuration. 2. My friend spent a couple of years fostering children; most were maladjusted as you would expect from a child in that situation and she endured a variety of property damage to her home as a result, including a fire from a child lighting matches and a carpet damaged from a child urinating repeatedly in a closet. Fostering comes with a paycheck which may motivate the "parents", rather than care and concern about the child.