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Pet Policies and Assistance Animals
Speaker :
Paul Flogstad
About The Event
We will discus the need for pet policies at your property. This policy is necessary whether your building allows pets or if it a pert free building. Regardless of the pet situation at your property there will be occasions where a reasonable accommodation request concerning an assistance or service animals is requested.
You must follow fair housing guidelines during this accommodation request.
Areas Covered
- What needs to be in your policy
- Fair housing basics concerning reasonable accommodation
- How to handle a request
- How to evaluate the request
- What constitutes a valid request
- What is an assistance animal?
- Definition of a disability
- ADA versus the fair housing act
- Verification
Learning Objectives
This course will discuss how to write good policy and rules. It will also provide guidance on all aspects of reasonable accommodation requests for assistive and service animals. There will be time for questions in case you need assistance with a specific situation.
Who Should Attend
- Property Managers
- Property owners
- Maintenance Staff
- Leasing Consultants
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Paul Flogstad
Paul has been involved in the real estate industry for the past 38 years. He has been involved in sales, construction, project management, appraisal, property management and property management consulting/training.
Through his consulting company, Property Management Solutions, he provides training and consulting services nationwide to owners, management companies, multi-housing associations, as well as state and federal agencies.
He specializes in fair housing issues and has developed fair housing and outreach programs for governmental agencies as well as conducting seminars which are presented to property management companies, apartment associations and the general public nationwide. Most recently, he has been a consultant to the State of South Dakota. In this assignment he has developed a fair housing awareness program that is one of the first of its kind in the nation. It involves a three pronged approach to fair housing awareness. This approach makes use of an ombudsman concept and has proven to be very effective in dealing with discrimination and landlord/tenant issues.
For over twenty years he was involved in appraisal of residential, multi-family, farm and commercial properties throughout the Midwest. Most recently, he was a consultant for affordable, multi-housing properties in 22 different states. This involved properties in HUD, Rural Development, HOME and Tax Credit programs.
He holds numerous professional property management designations and currently holds the prestigious RHM designation from the National Center for Housing Management.
Paul was previously Vice President of the South Dakota Multi-Housing Association, Vice Chairman of the Minnehaha County Housing and Redevelopment Commission, and Chairman of the Sioux Falls Property Appeals Board. In 2009, he received the Outstanding Educator of the Year award from the South Dakota Multi-Housing Association.
Paul just authored a book which was released in January of 2015. It is titled: “Fair Housing: What Everyone Should Knowâ€. This is a comprehensive book about the fair housing written with a property manager’s perspective and with real world examples. It is a great resource for anyone.