Fair Housing Review: What Everyone Should Know

HUD recommends that every one in property management/ multifamily housing  attend a fair housing class at least on a yearly basis.  This course will satisfy that requirement. This course will cover all facets of fair housing. HUD has issues new guidance in many areas and this webinar will contain all updates from HUD.

In this program, you’ll learn how to:

• Protected classes (Federal and Local)
• Disability
• Reasonable Accommodation
• Applications
• Screening
• Advertising
• Limited English proficiency
• Service and assistive animals
• Maintenance
• Criminal Background Checks
• Accessibility
• Social media
• Marketing
• New rules on harassment
• How to file a complaint

Benefist: The objective of the course is to keep you in compliance with fair housing regulations. Non-compliance can cost $$ as well as time to provide a defense. By learning strategies from this course will help you stay compliant and never have a fair housing complaint.

Who Should Attend:

• Property Owners
• Property Managers
• Housing Authority Staff
• Compliance Staff
• Maintenance Staff

Ask a question at the Q & A session following the live event and get advice pertaining to your situation, straight from our expert speaker.

Paul Flogstad

Paul has been involved in the real estate industry for the past 38 years. After college graduation was in law enforcement for 4 years. From that point on, he has been involved in sales, construction, project management, appraisal, mortgage consulting and brokerage, property management and property management consulting/training.

Most recently, he was a consultant for affordable, multi-housing properties in 22 different states. This involved properties in HUD, Rural Development and Tax Credit programs. In this role he supported managers by training, compliance, budgeting, developing policy and procedures as well as creating successful marketing strategies. Previously he was a regional manager for a large property management company in South Dakota.

For over twenty years was involved in appraisal of residential, multi-family, farm and commercial properties throughout the Midwest.

He holds numerous professional property management designations and currently holds the prestigious RHM designation from the National Center for Housing Management.

In 2007 he formed Property Management Solutions. In this capacity, he provides training and consulting services nationwide to owners, management companies, multi-housing associations, as well as state and federal agencies.

He currently serves as the Fair Housing Ombudsman for the State of South Dakota and is considered a nationally recognized expert in fair housing. He is also a national trainer specializing in tax credit properties for the National Center of Housing Management.