Stick-built is slow
Eighteen to twenty-four months from ground-break to certificate of occupancy is normal. That's two years of carry, and two years of not billing.
You know how to run care. You shouldn't have to spend two years and a construction loan learning how to build a facility. Vault delivers the physical plant — designed to license, built modular, set on your site — so your capital goes into operating, not concrete.
The margin in assisted and supportive living is real. The reason most people never capture it is that the building eats the runway before the first resident moves in.
Eighteen to twenty-four months from ground-break to certificate of occupancy is normal. That's two years of carry, and two years of not billing.
Buying a house and converting it means discovering, mid-project, that the corridors are too narrow and the bathrooms won't pass. Change orders compound.
Money that should fund staffing, census-building, and working capital goes into a structure — and structure is the part that a specialist can build cheaper.
Reimbursement doesn't care what your building cost. That's the entire opportunity: the income side is fixed by program rates, and the expense side is not.
Figures above describe the structural difference between delivery methods, not a guaranteed outcome.
Your actual cost, timeline, and margin depend on site, jurisdiction, license type, census, and staffing model.
We model your specific deal before you sign anything. Nothing here is an offer of investment or a projection of returns.
We look at your site or help you find one. Zoning, occupancy classification, utility capacity, and the license you actually intend to hold. If the deal doesn't work, we say so here — before you've spent anything.
The unit is configured against the requirements of your license type from the first drawing, not adapted to them afterward. Egress, corridor width, bathroom count, accessibility.
Modules are built in a controlled facility while your site work — foundation, utilities, grading — happens in parallel. The two timelines run at the same time instead of end to end.
Local building and fire sign-off, then the licensing walkthrough for your program. We hand you a building that is ready to be inspected, not one that needs another six weeks of work first.
Some operators want a building and nothing else. Some want a building and a hand on the operating side until census is stable. Both are fine. They are priced differently and papered differently.
We design, fabricate, and deliver the facility. You hold the license, you staff it, you bill. We are your builder and then we are done.
Everything in Track A, plus structured help on the side that most first-time operators underestimate: licensure, policies and procedures, referral relationships, and census.
Yes — a factory-built structure that meets state and local code is a building like any other. What matters is that it's designed for the occupancy classification your license requires, and that it passes local building, fire, and planning review plus your licensing agency's walkthrough. That's exactly what we design against. It is not a shortcut around code; it's a different way of producing a building that meets it.
Unit 001 has been delivered to the site. We are working through entitlement and permitting with the local jurisdiction. We are not going to tell you it's licensed and occupied before it is — if you're evaluating us, you can come look at exactly where it stands.
No. Nobody honest does. Licensure depends on you — your background, your administrator, your policies, your staffing. What we control is the building: that it is designed against your license type's physical-plant requirements and that it passes the inspections it needs to pass.
No, and be careful with anyone who does. Your margin is a function of your census, your payer mix, your staffing ratios, and your rate. What we can do is take a large, fixed, front-loaded cost — the building — and make it smaller and faster. What you do with that advantage is your business.
We are not a lender. We can talk through how operators typically capitalize these projects and what lenders and investors look for, but you will need your own capital stack. We'll tell you early and plainly if we think a deal isn't financeable.
Our focus is residential care and supportive housing configurations — including RCFE and ARF physical-plant requirements — and settings serving clients funded through regional center, veterans' programs, managed care, and private pay. Requirements differ meaningfully by license type and by jurisdiction, so the honest answer is that we start by confirming what you're actually applying for.
Tell us what you're trying to open and where. We'll send the brief and, if it looks like a fit, set up a call. If it doesn't look like a fit, we'll tell you that instead — it costs us both less.