Has anyone had this held against them?

BeetleGirl · 04-17-2006, 05:38 PM

Dh and I just moved across the country(Canada) & are currently renting a 4+ bedroom house since our home that we originally lived in had not sold.
Now that our house has sold we are looking at properties and are trying to figure out what will best suit us.
The house we live in now is great in the sense that it is huge, but we are renting it. Has anyone adopted that has been renting?
Has anyone had issues because they were renting?
Then the more important issue is dh & I found a large apartment style condo that is in a great neighbour hood, backs on to parks galore, is by many excellent schools etc, etc but we are curious to know if anyone has issues that lives in an apartment style condo? or if anyone does live in a condo?
Thanks.

Sister66 · 04-17-2006, 06:42 PM

We are in the US and planning to adopt through the state, renting has not been a problem. DH is in the military and we don't plan to buy anytime soon. I don't know how it is in Canada or for an international adoption though.

BeetleGirl · 04-17-2006, 07:50 PM

Thank you for responding.
We are planning on doing Domestic adoption through the Childrens Aid.
I know that some people think that renting is unstable(which I don't agree with). I just don't want to buy a place and have it held against us later.

BeetleGirl · 04-17-2006, 08:43 PM

Thanks Pookiepie.
That is good to know.
However the condo sold yesterday so I guess we'll have to try and find another place. I am happy to know that we can still consider apartment style condos or even renting the place we are in if we can't find our ideal home.

Calantha · 04-17-2006, 10:29 PM

I'm in the US too. We have one son from Colombia and we're in the process of adopting our daughter from China. Here in the US renting or owning doesn't matter. What matters is only that your home is safe and has room for the child(ren).

BeetleGirl · 04-18-2006, 12:27 AM

Thanks for responding Calantha.

It's very reassuring to hear this from numerous places.

Lisa67 · 04-18-2006, 01:02 AM

I wish you all the best in your adoption pursuit!

It's a wonderful ride to expanding your family

BeetleGirl · 04-18-2006, 06:50 AM

Thank you Lisa

~Lisa~ · 04-19-2006, 09:45 AM

I can't see why renting would matter at all as long as the home was stable and you could afford it and were paying your rent. I mean it's a roof over your head. KWIM? I wish you the best on this journey!

BeetleGirl · 04-19-2006, 10:53 PM

Thank you ~Lisa~

I am going to look at a house tomorrow a few blocks from where we are currently living so my worries may have been over nothing anyways.
Thank you all for sharing your experiences & your support.

Lisa2008 · 04-21-2006, 01:55 AM

for what it's worth, we had our homestudy while we were living in our owned condo, and it was not a problem.
Financially all they wanted was a worksheet filled out by us. I was surprised when they didnt ask for bank statements, or our tax reports to back our worksheet.

vegetariancyster · 04-21-2006, 05:50 AM

we are renters too and i was totally scared about this too! and whats worse is that after we had completed our homestudy the house we were living in sold and we got our 30 day notice. 3 weeks ago we moved into our new house and we are going to commitee for our(hopefully!!) boys on may 11th. we did make sure we signed a lease on this one! and our adoption worker just dropped in to make sure we were settled, i could tell she was relieved we signed a lease though.

BeetleGirl · 04-21-2006, 08:50 PM

Thanks Vegetariancyster at this point I almost wonder if we are better off renting with the way housing costs have jumped here. Thing is we have to pay our bank an $8000 penalty if we don't purchase a home within the next 3 months...so the hunt is on. Good to know that we can continue renting till we find a home that is aceptable.

Thanks Lisa,
We had a bidding war on a house yesterday and we lost.
So I am scheduled to go look at a condo townhouse later today & two condo apartments tomorrow. My guess is that if we will probably end up with a condo in the end.
I'm so glad that they don't require bank statements and such since I keep my money under my mattress(to save banking fees) Also trying to find all dh's tax info for the last couple years would be a nightmare.

Thanks again ladies!

LadyBugg · 04-21-2006, 10:10 PM

We recently completed an international adoption in Canada and are waiting for our baby to come home. The agency we worked with (Christian Adoption Services in Calgary) did require the notice of assessment from our last year's taxes. I noticed that when I sent the completed homestudy to Liberia, they had attached a copy of that notice to the back of it.

As for renting/owning, that soooo does not matter. I know that as prospective adoptive parents we want to make sure we are as presentable as possible, but keep in mind that these are social workers. They see kids in the most deplorable conditions and your home whether rented or otherwise is likely going to seem like a kid's paradise in comparison.

We felt the same worries that you do while we were TTC. We didn't really believe I would ever get pg, so we bought a huge house that we couldn't really afford at the time in order to feel like a potential birth mother would pick us. Thank goodness our income has grown to accomodate our mortgage! Now we laugh at ourselves because we know that our original fears were unfounded. When we did our recent homestudy, they basically told us that they need to know there is room for a child, no gaping holes in the walls, no poinsons left open on the floor, etc. The rest is all about you, your past and your marriage.