FREE TRAINING · FLORIDA ONLY · PICK A TIME THAT SUITS YOU.
The Real First Step to Opening an Assisted Living Facility in Florida
And the four things to verify before you buy anything. Every rule in this training is a Florida rule.
Almost everyone buys the property first, then finds out whether they are allowed to operate in it. This free training gives you the order that works, so every expensive decision gets made with the facts in hand.
Register now and get the clarity you’ve been searching for
You have already tried to figure this out
Read the AHCA handbook front to back and still had questions
Watched hours of videos, half of them made for another state
Asked in a Facebook group and got five different answers
Called the county and got transferred four times
Paid somebody who stopped answering once the money cleared
None of that was wasted. It just was not in an order that gets you licensed.
And before you blame yourself for any of it
Too much information, almost none of it Florida.
You are not short on content. Most of what you found was written for a different state, with different agencies and different rules.
Nobody defines the words.
Change of use. CEMP (Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan). ECC (Extended Congregate Care). The 1823 health assessment. Proof of financial ability. The industry talks in shorthand and expects newcomers to keep up.
The help you paid for does this part-time.
For a lot of consultants, ALF licensing is something they pick up when they have time. When they get busy, you wait.
You were never given a process. You were handed pieces and left to guess the order.
Four things, in about an hour
01
Which license you actually need.
Standard ALF, Adult Family Care Home, APD group home, or a specialty license, and the one question that settles it.
02
The four things to verify before you make an offer.
Zoning in writing, fire, emergency power, and water and septic, on a property you do not own yet.
03
What the timeline and the cash really look like.
Why the monthly carry on an empty building decides who makes it, and the requirement almost nobody warns you about: proof of financial ability to operate.
04
Who inspects what, and why paperwork fails people.
The five departments that look at your building, and why the file, not the building, is where people get stopped.
Bring a pen. You will want one.
Here is one thing from the training, before you even sign up
A phone call is not zoning approval.
You call the city. Someone tells you yes, that property is zoned for it. Your realtor hears the same thing. You buy the property. Then the zoning verification application is finally submitted, the fee is paid, and the written answer comes back no. By then it is your building.
What to actually do: submit a zoning verification application for that exact address, pay the fee, and do not close until the written zoning confirmation letter is in your hand. Put a zoning contingency in the contract so you can still walk away.
And even the letter is not the last word. If zoning approves twelve residents but your county requires one and a half parking spaces per resident, twelve residents needs eighteen spaces. Septic capacity is rated per person too. Whichever number is smallest is your real bed count.
Also covered in the training
The questions I get most on paid consultations, answered in order
How to plan for sprinkler and fire alarm from the very beginning, and why retrofitting later is the expensive version
How to earn from the property while it is being licensed, so you are not carrying the mortgage out of pocket
How to get residents: the four marketing mistakes almost everybody starts with
The eight phases of licensing, what we do in each, and the short list that stays with you
The honest answer to: can I do this while I still have my job?
Wherever you are starting from, start here
NO PROPERTY YET
The best and cheapest place anyone can start. Nothing is committed, and every expensive decision is still ahead of you.
YOU ALREADY OWN THE PROPERTY
License the property you own, move out and rent it, and let the facility carry itself. That is how generational wealth gets built out of one property.
YOU INVEST, YOU DO NOT OPERATE
Own a facility without running it day to day. There is a real answer to what that looks like, and it starts with the same first steps.
Watching from another state? You do not have to live in Florida to own a facility in Florida.
I ran the building
I am Carline Cadet Francois, a former Florida ALF administrator and operator and an AHCA-approved ALF core trainer. Not a course I took. A building I ran, with residents in it and surveyors at the door.
This is not something we do when we have time. It is all we do, all day, every day, and there is a team behind it.
We license across the state of Florida, Pensacola to Key West. Tell me your county. Chances are we have already licensed someone there.
Every client. Approved on the first inspection.
Not one second visit. Ask for references and call them yourself.
Read my storyI bring this whole industry into one room, every year
The Assisted Living & Caregivers Conference: two days in Florida, every year, and it sells out. Owners, investors, caregivers, AHCA, elder law, lenders, and your new ALF CEO bestie, all in one room. Up to 9 Florida ALF continuing education hours with every ticket.
Day three is the ALF CEO Implementation Mastermind, capped at 25 people, with separate registration.
Before you sign up
Is it really free?
When is it on?
Is this just a sales pitch?
I have not bought a property yet. Is it too early?
I already bought a property. Is it too late?
Is this only for Florida?
Know someone who keeps saying “one day”?
Send this page to her. Your sister, your cousin, the coworker you have talked about doing this with, the bestie you plan to open your facility with. Most people who need this are not searching for it today. They find it because somebody sent it to them.