Why I Don't Put Bunk Beds In My Sober Living Homes

Step three is going to be finding the right property. So once you actually identify the right location, now you're on the hunt for the right home. And that's usually going to be something that's four bed, two bath or bigger. So four bedrooms, two bathrooms at least, usually with enough room for two twin beds per room. That's the way I like to run it. I don't like bunk beds. I just think that introduces a whole host of issues, especially for people who might have recently been in incarceration. Doesn't even have to be recent. Somebody might have had a really traumatic experience in prison years ago. You know, having to be in a bunk bed, dealing with who's on the top bunk, who's on the bottom bunk. Multiple people in a room, kind of on of each other. It tends to cause problems in higher turnover. And so from the very beginning, I've always just done individual twin beds and rooms. We might put a third bed in a larger bedroom with a private bathroom, but we're usually not doing any more than two. Unless that's the case. It's a bigger footprint room with its own private bathroom. That's worked out very well for us. And even the caseworkers really like seeing that they enjoy that we take pride in our properties and that we treat people like humans and not like cattle.