11/05/2024
11 am PT / 12 pm MT / 1 pm CT / 2 pm ET
*approximate length: 45 minutes to 1 hour
Presenter: Doug Chasick, CPM®, "That Fair Housing Guy"
Even though HUD finally issued definitive guidance regarding assistive animals in January of 2020, confusion and apparent misunderstanding of the guidance continues to generate questions like:
- "What exactly is a service animal and what is an ESA?"
- "What is a household animal – where I live, a pot-bellied pig is seen in households all the time, so is it also true in Manhattan?"
- "Is there such a thing as a national ESA registry?"
- "Must all service animals wear a vest?"
- "Can I ask to see proof of training for service animals?"
- "Can I mandate all animals being DNA registered or does that only apply to pets?"
- "What about my amenities – can my visually-impaired resident swim with their dog?"
And the list goes on and on. I know some of these sounds familiar – probably too familiar! Join us for a fast-paced, fact-filled session on all things assistance animals and the answer to the question, “What can three cats do that one cat can’t?”
Learning Objectives:
- Learn the difference between assistive animals and pets and how to differentiate between a service animal and a support animal
- Review what kind of accommodations we may need to approve, what questions we may ask and when we may ask for written verification
- Understand what animals may and may not be allowed as service and/or support animals and how to manage requests for multiple animals
Doug Chasick, That Fair Housing Guy™, is the former President of the Fair Housing Institute, Inc. With more than 47 years of investment real estate experience, he began as the Resident Manager of a 524-unit apartment property and has been the President or CEO of five real estate companies, responsible for portfolios of over 28,000 apartments, and more than 8 million square feet of commercial, retail and industrial properties.
Doug was awarded his CPM® in 1979 and was a member of the IREM National Faculty. A Senior Instructor member of the NAAEI Faculty, he leads the Advanced Facilitator Training course, is the co-author of “Outstanding Facilitation Techniques”, and was deeply involved in the creation of the joint IREM & NAAEI “Fair Housing and Beyond” course. He is a licensed Real Estate Broker in Florida, a licensed Expert Fair Housing Instructor in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the recipient of the NAAEI Apartment Career & Education award.