I don't know the laws there, but in Indiana the only way you can run a daycare in a residential setting if a person doesn't actually live there is by registering it as an actual place of business first. Therfore, you couldn't be considered as a home-based child care provider, but a daycare facility. So, you have to abide by facility rules as opposed to home care rules. I learned this last year when a person in my mother's neighborhood got in trouble for doing it. Even though they owned the house, no one lived there. Unless you are planning on renting a very large apartment to accomodate different age groups and can afford paying workers as well, you may want to consider a different approach.

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