05/14/2025
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"
At most communities, the maintenance professionals are "the face of the company". They have the most contact with residents and are therefore most likely to be involved in a fair housing issue. Many fair housing complaints arise from team members trying to be helpful, not being aware of proper procedure, or just plain ignorance of fair housing compliance protocols. While it’s impossible to prevent all fair housing complaints, regularly scheduled training of everyone in a customer-facing role can lessen the possibility of being named in a fair housing complaint or lawsuit.
With the fast-moving and often confusing changes seemingly happening daily in our industry, uncertainty is creating worry, anxiety, frustration and anger. And questions - lots of questions from customers trying to get information and service. Are your maintenance professionals trained to effectively and appropriately answer the most common questions asked by those residents and prospects?
To ensure fair housing compliance, it is essential that everyone on the maintenance team is able to respond to the most commonly asked questions with a fair housing friendly answer, even if that answer is simply to direct the question to the manager!
Learning Objectives:
- Ensure awareness of current Fair Housing requirements and suggested strategies for effective compliance.
- Learn how to effectively answer the most commonly asked questions heard by maintenance professionals.
- Understand special considerations required for the effective practice of fair housing by maintenance staff
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.