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A Nesting Place

Formally known as Hensley Homes
Safe housing for adult women coping with mental illness

10/07/2026

Episode 25 🏠🤎 Where We Stand

After 25 episodes of A Home, Not Just a House, I thought it was time for a recap.

For anyone new here, I started building this business in 2015, and our first resident moved in in January 2016. For more than a decade, these homes have provided residential care and stability for women living with serious mental illness.

One important piece of the story I hadn’t shared publicly until now: I own the business, but I don’t own the properties. My ex-husband does. Following our divorce, I continued operating the homes under a lease, and the properties are now for sale.

So far:

🏠 Multiple financing options explored
🤎 7 donors + $250 raised
🏠 The combined asking price is now $290,000
🤎 I’m now exploring whether purchasing one home instead of both could be a realistic path forward

Our lease runs through December 2027, and nothing about the day-to-day care happening inside these homes has changed.

There are still a lot of unknowns, but I’m not giving up. I’m adjusting the goal as I learn more and will continue sharing meaningful updates along the way.

Thank you to everyone who has donated, shared our story, offered advice, or simply followed along. It truly matters. 🤎

If you’d like to donate or share our fundraiser:
https://gofund.me/8345ab382

10/02/2026

🏠🤎 A Home, Not Just a House 🏡 🤎 Episode 24

There’s another side to our story that we haven’t talked about much.

For over a decade, I’ve dedicated my career to operating residential homes for women living with serious mental illness.

These homes are more than a passion project. They’re a small business, my full-time career, and how I support myself.

While my greatest concern is maintaining stability for the women who call these houses home, the potential loss of these properties also puts the future of the business I’ve spent years building at risk.

We’re working toward purchasing both properties so we can create long-term stability, not only for the residents, but for the future of A Nesting Place.

The biggest obstacle right now is securing the upfront capital needed to pursue ownership.

If you’d like to support our efforts, donations will go toward the property acquisition and related costs. Sharing our story is also an incredible way to help us reach more people.

📽️ New to our story? I’ve been documenting this journey from the beginning in my series, A Home, Not Just a House. You can follow along and catch up on all previous episodes on my personal page, Mandi Hensley

🏠 Support our fundraiser here:
https://gofund.me/f9fef268f

Thank you for supporting these homes, the women who live in them, and the small business behind it all. 🤎

~ Mandi

10/01/2026

Hello October 🎃👻🧙‍♀️

09/25/2026

Episode 20 of A Home, Not Just a House 🏠🤎

I haven’t shared every episode of this series here on our business page, but today felt like an important one to share.

For anyone just finding this story: the two homes where I operate my residential-care business are currently for sale. My goal is to find a path to ownership so we can protect the stability these homes provide for the women who live here.

Today started with our monthly Family Care Home Forum, included a little Chick-fil-A and apparently a Martina McBride concert in my car 😂, and ended with the meeting I’ve really been waiting for.

I sat down with a banker to go through the options for purchasing these homes through my business.

And there’s one avenue I haven’t explored yet: SBA financing.

This is NOT an approval, and I definitely didn’t leave the meeting feeling like we’ve solved this. I still have financial documents to provide, the numbers have to work, and there are concerns about whether the business income will support the financing I need.

We even discussed what it could look like if I could only qualify to purchase one of the homes.

That’s not the goal.

The goal is still both 🏠🏠

But today wasn’t about getting a yes. It was about making sure I haven’t left a possible path unexplored.

Hopefully around Tuesday, I’ll have a better idea of whether this avenue could actually work.

Until then, I keep going.

I don’t have an answer yet. But I have another avenue. 🤎

If you’d like to help us work toward our path to ownership, you can donate or share our GoFundMe here:

https://gofund.me/f9fef268f

Every donation, share and person who follows this story helps us keep moving forward. 🏠🤎

Episode 20 • A Home, Not Just a House

09/21/2026

Before this was somebody’s home, it was an empty house I stood in crying🏠🤎

I started working toward this business in 2015. In January 2016, we welcomed our first resident, but getting there wasn’t nearly as simple as that sentence makes it sound.

There was a point when I genuinely wondered if any of this was going to work.

More than a decade later, I’m facing another one of those moments.

This time, the houses are established homes. Women live here. And I’m trying to find a path to ownership so I can protect what we’ve built.

I still don’t know exactly how this chapter ends.

But I know something now that I didn’t know standing in that empty house in 2015:

I’ve figured out hard things before.

And I’m going to keep trying 🤎

Day 16 of A Home, Not Just a House.

🏠 Fundraiser linked in bio

09/18/2026

When you’re on call 24/7, you learn to take the quiet moments when you get them. 🤎

If you also follow Mandi K personally, you probably know there’s another side of her content that includes plenty of makeup, skincare and self-care 😂🤎

Today, Day 15 of A Home, Not Just a House looks a little different.

Running residential homes means there really isn’t a true “day off.” Even on a quiet day, the homes still need to be checked on and the phone can ring at any moment.

But when things ARE calm, sometimes you have to take advantage of those moments.

Because you can’t burn yourself out trying to save something you hope to still be running years from now 🏠

We all deserve a little self-care sometimes 🤎

The homes are still for sale. The fundraiser is still growing. And the fight for our path to ownership continues.

Day 15 of A Home, Not Just a House 🏠🤎

If you’d like to support our journey, you can donate or share our GoFundMe:

https://gofund.me/f9fef268f

Every donation and every share gets us a little closer 🤎

09/17/2026

We’re officially $100 closer! 🏠🤎

Four amazing people have each donated $25 to 𝒜 𝐻𝑜𝓂𝑒, 𝒩𝑜𝓉 𝒥𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒶 𝐻𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒, and I’m incredibly grateful.

If you follow A Nesting Place here on Facebook, you may not realize that for the past two weeks I’ve been documenting our journey to try to purchase the two homes where I operate my residential care business.

We’re already on Day 14 of the series over on Instagram! I realized today that because of the way I’ve been posting the series as collaboration posts, they haven’t been making their way over to this page.

So from here forward, I’ll make sure you can follow the journey here too. 🏠

In the meantime, you can catch up on 𝒜 𝐻𝑜𝓂𝑒, 𝒩𝑜𝓉 𝒥𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒶 𝐻𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 over on our Instagram.

And if you’d like to support our path to ownership, you can donate or share our GoFundMe here:

https://gofund.me/f9fef268f

To our first four donors and everyone who has shared, commented, followed, or encouraged me along the way, THANK YOU! 🫶🏻

We’re $100 closer than we were when we started. 🤎

09/01/2026

Hello September 🍃🍁🍂

05/22/2026

🍩 give 🆙

05/12/2026

Here we like to go the extra mile our residents 🏡
✅ Birth Certificate secured & paid for
✅ State ID secured & coming in the mail
✅ Social Security Income letter in hand
✅ Lunch at added bonus

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Cincinnati, OH

Telephone

+15132902104

Website

http://www.nestingplace.org/

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