assited living mingled with independent condominium?

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BonnieG1 (Nebraska)
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We are a 43 unit condominium in NE. Many people who moved in while in there 60s and 70s and are now in there 80s 90s and even on 101 year old. These older people are either dying or moving to assisted living, giving us many empty units.
We are adjacent to a care center (A tunnel connects the two buildings). At the last Board meeting, a Board member suggested we try to sell the empty units to the care center to be used as assistant living.

I spoke up and said that legally, I don't think that would be allowed as I know assisted living facilities have laws to follow just like we do.
Now we could sell the entire building to them if owners who owned 75% of the undivided interet would vote to do so, but at this time I see no way we can mix assisted living with independent living.

Please let me know if you think I am wrong. And if I am wrong, how would we go about the process of having some units assited living. Thanks for all your input.

MelissaP1 (Alabama)
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We have a facility in our town that does both. There are buildings that are independent living which allows the tenants to provide for their own care. They then can move to another building in the complex that has on-call assisted living type conditions. It is set up to be mixed care. It's owned by the same company.

It may be possible to set up the same arrangement. I would invite the owner of the other complex to a meeting to discuss the option if they would like to pursue it. If they want to proceed with the option the ball may be in their hands on how to handle the new laws if any. Your complex just would need to vote to allow the takeover to happen.

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SusanW1 (Michigan)
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Why not?

The assisted living group is a company, so the company would own the unit. They would have to abide by any housing regulations, just like any other owner/resident.

It MIGHT affect your resale values, however. Not everyone would want to buy into a building that is full of elderly or handicapped persons.

SusanW1 (Michigan)
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RogerB (Colorado)
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Bonnie,
I agree with you. Assisted living facilities usually are licensed by the state. To acquire a state license requires meeting specific requirements. I don't think individual condo units would qualify to be classified as assissted living.

BradP (Kansas)
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To add to what Roger said, state requirements equals red tape. I don't like red tape and what may seem like a good idea may turn into a headache down the road due to that red tape.

BonnieG1 (Nebraska)
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Posted By MelissaP1 on 01/13/2012 11:38 AM
We have a facility in our town that does both. There are buildings that are independent living which allows the tenants to provide for their own care. They then can move to another building in the complex that has on-call assisted living type conditions. It is set up to be mixed care. It's owned by the same company.

It may be possible to set up the same arrangement. I would invite the owner of the other complex to a meeting to discuss the option if they would like to pursue it. If they want to proceed with the option the ball may be in their hands on how to handle the new laws if any. Your complex just would need to vote to allow the takeover to happen.

What the Board members was referring to was to have assisted living units in our building not a separate building. I see other posts that indicated if this were to happen it would affect our resale value.

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