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Each year recertifications are completed. Sometimes the household income changes, and such changes could put the household over the 140% applicable federal income limit. So now what? Does management send the household a termination notice to move the household out or is the household permitted to stay in affordable housing? Are there special rules to be followed if the household goes over 140%?  In this 90-minute webinar, E&A Team’s Tari Bradley, Housing Compliance Trainer,  will review information pertaining to recertifications and how to proceed forward should the household exceed 140%.  Topics will include: Annual Recertifications Brief Overview of the Applicable Fraction  Next Available Unit Rule  Vacant Unit Rule  Transferring Units Read more

How well do you know your property? Do you know which IRS Form the owner uses to make the election on the number of units you have to rent to eligible low-income households? Do you know if your owner has a state set-aside election as a part of your property? Do you have any deep rent skewed units?  These are questions a property manager must know the answer to before truly understanding their property and how to rent units.  In this 90-minute webinar, E&A Team’s Housing Compliance Trainer, Tari Bradley, will review the federal set-aside, state and deep rent skewed elections and how they account for the number of units that must be tax credit eligible.  Topics will include:  Set-Aside Elections o Federal Set-Asides, including Average Income o State Set-Asides  Optional Set-Asides Deep Rent Skewing State Set-Asides Set-Aside Election Deadlines Read more

It’s a governmental system. Checks and balances and our Rural Development communities is not an exception. Owners are notified, managers get the files ready and maintenance inspects the grounds all for the big day…the day of inspection. The inspector shows up…now what?  In this 60-minute session, Gary Kirkman, E&A Team’s Director of Compliance Training, will speak about the Rural Development supervisory visits and maintenance standards.  Topics will include:  Monitoring Methods  Triennial Supervisory Visits – Desk Reviews Triennial Supervisory Visits – Physical Inspections Triennial Supervisory Visits – On-Site/Compliance Reviews Triennial Supervisory Visits – Exit Interviews    Maintenance & Physical Condition Standards       Read more

  Fair Housing Accessibility for Maintenance Personnel is an overview of accessibility information that all multifamily Maintenance Personnel should be familiar with.  This is intended for Maintenance Personnel who have recently completed basic fair housing training.  It contains four videos of E&A Team's President and Fair Housing Accessibility expert, Mark English, explaining the basics of accessibility.  It includes a "virtual walkabout tour" and discusses common accessibility issues, myths, and mistakes. A downloadable workbook is included.   Read more

This 90 minute presentation by fair housing attorney, Sara McCue, explains the fundamentals of Fair Housing to some of multifamily housing's most important people:  Maintenance Personnel. Sara provides plenty of real-life examples specifically to help Maintenance Personnel learn and understand the basics of fair housing.   Maintenance personnel will learn best practices to avoid fair housing complaints - from relating to and interacting with tenants and site visitors, to avoiding harassment complaints, to work order policies, to reasonable accommodations, reasonable modifications, assistance animals and more!   Read more

In Part One of this exciting new training titled Fair Housing:  Are You Up to the "Test?", the learner takes on the role of a newly-hired tester and learns the basics of fair housing and explores leasing and management issues.  The "tester" is taught what to look for when evaluating properties for possible fair housing discrimination claims.  Once the learner knows what testers are looking for, they can apply the principles and knowledge they gained to their real-life role in property management! Part One contains six instruction modules: Module 1:  Introduction to Testing, Laws, and Discrimination Module 2:  Enforcement Mechanisms and Remedies Module 3:  Interacting with Potential Tenants Module 4:  Introduction to Accessibility Requirements Module 5:  Reasonable Accommodation and Reasonable Modification Module 6:  Introduction to Harassment in Housing Part Two of the course contains instruction on the following Special Topics required by TDHCA: Criminal Background Checks and Disparate Impact Claims Fair Housing Protections for Persons with Limited English Proficiency TDHCA Texas Accessibility Requirements (TAC) Local Nuisance and Crime Free Lease Ordinances Upon successful completion of all course instruction and exams (Part One is a 50-question T/F and Multiple Choice Exam; Part Two is a short quiz covering the special topics), you will be able to print your own Certificate of Completion stating that you have had six hours of Leasing and Management Issues Training which meets the Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs QAP related to Leasing & Management Issues. Once enrolled you will have six months unlimited access to the course.   You can take the course at your own pace -- start, stop, return later and resume where you left off. Exams can be taken as many times as is necessary to pass. The course also includes two downloadable  fill-in-the-blanks manuals which once completed become an excellent desk references for fair housing issues and contains many valuable resources.   This course has also been approved for Management Companies by Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency and meets the requirements for their 2020 QAP. Read more