Well, certainly more than $500/mo and utilities, right?

Right, that's true, but you can have one of our houses for $500/mo, you just have to keep it neat and in Show Ready condition because the house is on the market for sale.

Right again, but since you save $500, $1,000, $2,000 or more every month -- moving's not such a problem.

Besides, houses are not exactly selling like hotcakes, foreclosures are dragging the market down and you may be moving into a $300K to $3M home -- for only $500/mo and utilities.

Well, certainly more than $500/mo and utilities, right?

to Homeowners of vacant property. In addition, we provide an opportunity for those, like yourself, to maintain the standard of living you have become accustomed to without the high cost of a rental situation or qualification for a mortgage.

Our Caretakers come to us with a wide variety of reasons for wanting to be a part of our team. As one of our highly valued Caretakers, you must have the means by which to pay the monthly Caretaker fee and a one time deposit of $750.00, the property maintenance costs such as utilities and any applicable association fees.

You must have a reasonable background with a clean criminal history and you must have furniture of the kind a quality to adequately furnish the home if it is on the market for sale. Some of our Caretakers have less then perfect credit, or have lost the roof over their head for what ever reason. We will make every effort to accommodate your situation so long as we feel confident you can perform to a high degree as one of our Caretakers.

In general, our Subcontractors are required to perform the general maintenance and upkeep of the property as if it were their own home, pay the utilities and applicable association fees. Should the home be on the market for sale, we will require that you allow access to the property during show hours through the use of a lockbox provided by the Realtor and maintain the home in a show to sell condition seven days a week.

Do you want to keep your furniture and live in a house -- or sell it and be an apartment dweller?

The benefit from all this of course is that you get to live in a nice home for a very low cost. Sound tough, it can be, but to pay $500 a month for a home that would otherwise cost you many times more, is a great incentive. We are not landlords or property managers, therefore, this is not a rental or lease situation.

If the home is on the market for sale, as most are, your privacy can and will be disturbed during the show hours of the property. When the property sells, you will have to relocate. While most of the properties go through a traditional closing period prior to sale, generally several weeks, the worst case (very rare) scenario may require you to be relocated in as little as five days.

To take advantage of this exciting program as one of our valued Subcontractors, you will need to complete the Subcontractor Application and provide pictures of your furniture and décor. Once we determine your eligibility in our program we will ask that you pay a one-time, non-refundable Application Fee of $95.00, at which time we will perform a routine background check. Upon receipt of acceptable results we will conduct a one-on-one interview with you and your family and provide you with a selection (if available) of properties you have been matched to and enter into a Service Agreement.

To help with the moving between homes in our program, we offer a Moving Service to which you can subscribe that will provide moving assistance between homes in our program. For the maintenance challenged Caretaker, we also offer a maintenance service to which you can subscribe to handle the miscellaneous tasks that become part of your responsibilities as one of our Caretakers.

In General, we are not aware of any tax consequences.  However, without knowing your personal tax situation we always advise seeking advice from a tax professional for your specific situation.

Caretakers are not typically issued a 1099 certificate at year end. We issue Hitter Bucks for excellent work and while some Caretakers may be earning quite a few of these reward dollars, their value in any given year will be typically be below the $600 per year threshold necessary to issue a 1099-MISC. If however, you do accumulate more than $600 in Hitter Bucks, Homes In Transition will issue a 1099-MISC.

Our Property Caretakers are not liable for taxes on the property but if the property is located in a development that has association fees, the association fees are paid by the Caretaker for the pro-rated duration of the occupancy.  As a Caretaker you do not have any financial relationship to the true owners of the property, beyond providing proof of rental liability insurance in the amount of $300,000.

Yes, your application is the first step.  Next, we determine if you would be a good fit for the Caretaker program, Your Caretaker Supervisor then reviews your wants and needs, your furniture and suggests various properties that would be a good match for you.  The Subcontractor Service Agreement details the relationship and responsibilities of a Caretaker and outlines the guidelines that are mostly common sense but makes good policy to spell out clearly... Things like... don't paint the house, remove a wall to make the bathroom bigger or tear out all the shrubbery because you don't think it looks good... Our Property Caretakers enjoy our houses at $500/month and simply have to keep the status quo... they don't leave dishes piled up in the sink, don't have piles of clothes on the floor, don't leave the house without making the beds... it's all very easy and natural for many people already, we just have it spelled out in the Agreement for people that may forget that they are living in a great place for $500/month -- for a reason.

Yes, we can arrange that.  Homes In Transition is adding video testimonials to our website so that you can hear directly from those existing and former Caretakers that have benefited from the Caretaker lifestyle -- exactly what drew them to the program and their advice to people considering the pro's and con's of becoming a Caretaker. By and large, the pro's far outweigh the con's as you can well imagine, when you are living in a house for only $500/month.