NestIDD: A Real Estate Business Model for Providing Accessible Rental Housing

As a care provider, we know that finding a good home for people with IDD can be one of the hardest parts of your job; fortunately, there are incredible real estate firms such as NestIDD that buys, renovates, leases, and manages homes for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In this episode, the Co-Founder & CEO of NestIDD, Andrew Parker shares his journey in providing support to the care agencies who work with people with IDD by purchasing and fixing up properties specifically for them. He also discloses how they help people to live in communities where they know everyone and get the support they need, and why he sees an opportunity to make their lives easier by providing technology and services that will help them provide better care to their clients. Let's dig into a real estate business model for providing accessible rental housing!

Key Highlights:

[00:01 - 08:42] Opening Segment

• Andrew introduces NestIDD

• How to help IDD residents find housing

• How IDD provider offers affordable housing to care

[08:43 - 19:33] Welcome to the World of IDD and DD Homes

• IDD and DD real estate agents work with care providers to find homes for individuals with disabilities

• Why small businesses succeed by helping care agencies

• How the idea of NestIDD came up

[19:34 - 26:24] Providing Better Care To More People

• How NestIDD provides technology and assistance to care agencies to reduce the burden of housing for their clients

• The impact of technology on how NestIDD prepares houses for their clients

• The biggest challenge that NestIDD face to serve the care agencies they work with while also providing quality care to their clients

[26:25 - 30:16] Closing Segment

• When housing costs get too high for group home communities, the model becomes less viable

Want to connect with Andrew? Follow him on LinkedIn. Make sure to visit NestIDD, we buy houses, customize them for people with disabilities, and lease and maintain them - affordably!

Key Quotes:

"When someone is able to move into a more independent living environment, it often makes the family's life richer and better because they can be family first rather than caretaker first." - Andrew Parker

"The real business or the real customer we're serving is the care agency themselves who is looking for a particular piece of real estate to operate within." - Andrew Parker

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