Partner landlords
Your house. Our program. A veteran’s next 90 days.
Veterans Housing Veterans owns no real estate. Our residents live in shared homes owned by partner landlords, and we run the program inside them: screening, house rules, weekly check-ins and the plan to the next place. If you own a clean house in Tampa Bay, you can be the next partner.
How it works
Five steps from an empty room to a resident.
The house stays yours, and VHV brings the residents and the structure.
- Tell us about your house. The area, bedrooms and bathrooms, and when it could be ready. Leave the street address out for now.
- Walk-through. We check the house against our checklist: working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, GFCI outlets near water, handrails, at least 50 square feet of bedroom space per bed, no bunk beds, and one bathroom for every six residents.
- Sign the partner agreement. It sets the rent per room, who handles what, the lease or contract you will use, and the paperwork a voucher or veterans program asks a landlord for: a W-9 and proof of ownership, and sometimes proof of insurance.
- We list and fill the rooms. Your rooms join the open-bed board on this site, and we bring the referrals: VA social workers, veterans treatment courts, hospital discharge planners and families. VHV screens every resident before move-in.
- Rent comes to you. Residents pay $850 to $1,250 a month. When a resident has a HUD-VASH voucher or help from the SSVF program, the housing authority or the SSVF agency pays you directly, after its own check of the house.
Who does what
You own the house. We run the program.
VHV provides
The people, the rules and the follow-through.
Screened residents
Intake, house rules every resident agrees to, and random drug testing every month.
Structure in the house
House rules, curfews that loosen as residents earn trust, chores, house meetings, and a program director who answers the phone.
Referrals and listings
The open-bed board on this site, our referral partners, and help registering your house with the local housing authorities’ landlord programs.
What happens next
Weekly check-ins, a 90-day plan for each resident, and help with move-outs, which follow your lease or contract and Florida law.
You provide
A safe house and a fair lease.
A house that passes inspection
Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, GFCI outlets, handrails, a working kitchen and laundry.
Furnished rooms and the basics
A bed, a dresser and bedding in each room. Donated furniture can help with this.
A per-room lease or contract at a fair rent
At or below what the housing authority and veterans programs call reasonable for the area.
Repairs and upkeep
You keep the house in good repair. Residents handle the chores.
Paperwork
A W-9 and proof of ownership, and sometimes proof of insurance, so a voucher or veterans program can pay you.
Money, plainly
Residents pay the rent. Donations never do.
On a stay of six months, the resident signs the lease with you. On a 30, 60 or 90-day program stay, the nonprofit partner signs a contract with you instead. Either way, donations to VHV never pay rent. Rent arrives one of three ways.
The resident pays
From wages or benefits. Most residents pay $850 to $1,250 a month, with furniture, utilities and internet included.
A HUD-VASH voucher pays
For an eligible veteran, the housing authority pays its share of the rent directly to you and the veteran pays the rest. The total is capped at the room’s share of a reasonable rent for the whole house, and the house must pass the housing authority’s inspection first.
SSVF pays
The Supportive Services for Veteran Families program can pay a deposit and months of rent for an eligible veteran, straight to you. Vincentian CARES runs it in Hillsborough and Pinellas; other agencies run it in the rest of our counties.
Both programs check the house and the rent first, so a partner home has to be priced for its neighborhood, not above it. We walk you through their landlord paperwork.
Our first partner landlord is G3 Properties, a company owned by VHV’s founder, George Schembri III. We say so plainly because transparency is part of how we work, so funders, partners and residents know it up front. Donations to VHV never pay rent to any landlord, G3 Properties included. VHV owns no real estate; growing means more partner landlords, not more property on VHV’s books.
Questions landlords ask
Straight answers.
Do I need to be a veteran?
No. A partner landlord is anyone who owns a suitable house in one of the seven counties we serve.
What kind of house works?
A clean, well-kept house with several bedrooms and enough bathrooms for the residents it will hold. Men and women live in separate homes, so each house is one or the other. We look at the rest together on the walk-through.
Who decides who moves in?
VHV screens every applicant and matches them to a home, and you see every lease or contract before anyone moves in.
What if a resident breaks the rules?
House rules are part of what every resident agrees to at intake. A resident with a lease is a tenant under Florida law, so a move-out follows the lease and the law, and the decision is yours as the landlord. VHV handles the program side and helps the resident find the next step.
Is this a licensed program?
Florida does not license recovery residences. Certification through the Florida Association of Recovery Residences (FARR) is voluntary, and VHV is working toward it. It still matters: licensed treatment providers outside the state’s managing-entity network may refer only to certified residences, and state recovery-housing money requires it.
Does VHV pay rent?
No. Donations to VHV never pay rent. Residents, and the programs that help them, pay you directly.
What about insurance and local rules?
Tell your insurer the house is a shared rental. Rules for shared housing differ by city and county, so confirm them with your city or county before anyone moves in. We can point you to the right office.
Tell us about your house
Start the conversation.
Partnerships are handled by Roxana Novoa, our Program Director. Send the basics below, or call 813-471-5648. We answer within 2 to 3 business days. Prefer your own email? Write to info@veteranshousingveterans.com.
Every open bed is a light we keep on.
A partner home turns an empty room into a veteran’s next step. Questions? Call 813-471-5648 or email info@veteranshousingveterans.com.