Quote from @Steven Hervey: Hey everyone,We are renting our first property and were approached today about renting it out as a palliative adult care home. 

If your zoning or building code limits unrelated adults, that limit still applies.

If the guy's solid and has been in for several years, I'm a lot more comfortable than I am with someone who started this year -- then it starts looking like a shell game.Every adult must be on the lease, and each must pass your screening tests, and each must be responsible for the entire rent.

But the spouse/partner isn’t screened by anyone, and that is where most landlords get burned.Here’s how most experienced MTR owners handle it, and what I’ve seen work best:Screen them as a household, not just the nurse.If two adults are living in your property, they’re both legally responsible for rent and for whatever happens inside the unit.

My adult children have 9 properties now ~ they advise me to buy a few rentals to provide eventual income supplementation after I retire. ( Who wants to be the retiree wiping tables at McDonald's ?

Even though the nurse is already vetted through their agency, I still run standard checks on any adult who will be living in the home—mainly a background check for safety and basic income verification if they’ll be contributing.If the nurse’s contract alone easily meets the income requirement, I don’t stress too much about the spouse’s finances, but I still verify who they are since they’ll be occupying the property.

I am from a family of 7 , five kids , 2 adults and it was fun , constant crazyness .

My kids are transitioning to adults, I need to find a new place to live and will probably house hack in some way. 

My background is in senior living, where I’ve been working on building cozy homes for older adults—think 10–20 residents in a house instead of the 200-bed big-box model.

You can terminate the current lease by mutual agreement and issue a brand-new one that includes the additional adult as long as the new person is fully screened (credit, background, income, rental history, employment, etc.).