Service and Emotional Support Animals: What You Can and Can’t Do When Owners Request Them
Thursday, June 23, 2022
2-3 p.m. Eastern
An Exclusive HOAleader.com Webinar
with Practical Tips for Condo and HOA Boards
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In 2020, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development got the message: Too many people seemed to be abusing rules meant to aid people who need animals to help with medical issues. In response, HUD issued guidelines that allowed condo and HOA boards to tighten their responses to owners and residents who claim a medical need for an
animal.
What steps can you take? What steps are risky?
We’ll answer those questions and more in an in-depth webinar on June 23, where two experts with extensive experience in fair housing issues and law will tell you what HUD’s 2020 directive says and doesn’t say. They’ll also offer you advice on how you should—and probably shouldn’t—respond to owners’ requests for accommodation for any animal.
You’ll get clear and helpful information on:
- Service animals and emotional support animals and the difference between the two
- The specifics in HUD’s guidelines and our experts’ predictions on whether they’ll curb what’s been a trend toward more and more requests for emotional support animals
- How to create a policy addressing such animals that you can actually enforce
- Steps you need to take to handle requests from members, including what you should ask owners in response to such requests and what you should avoid asking
- How to respond when an owner’s evidence appears to be from an online medical-permission mill
- The restrictions you can place on service animals, including requiring them to be on leash in the common areas, housebroken, and more — plus whether it’s permissible to demand an owner remove a specific animal from your
association
- Advice on whether you can and should push the legal envelope on this issue, which we’ve heard many, many board members and experts want to do
- And much more!
In a mere 60 minutes, you’ll receive authoritative, sensible, and valuable information that will help you better respond when owners request an accommodation for an animal. Register now for this informative event for community association board members.
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| Attorney Phaedra J. Howard specializes in real
estate, real estate litigation and appeals, creditor remedies, and community association law, with an emphasis in the representation of condominium, townhome, planned community and cooperative associations at Hellmuth & Johnson in Edina, Minn. Howard assists hundreds of community associations in interpreting and enforcing governing documents; drafting and amending governing documents; handling homeowner and vendor disputes; advising associations on fair housing issues; and providing legal
advice and opinions on a wide variety of issues affecting community associations. Howard has taught many seminars on topics relating to community associations and is an approved fair housing trainer for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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| Attorney Lisa Magill represents condominium, homeowner, cooperative, and other common-interest realty associations, including condo-hotels, country clubs, and commercial and mixed-use properties at Kaye Bender Rembaum in Pompano Beach, Fla. She’s long been active in the industry and a featured speaker on housing laws, covenant enforcement, and association operations for board members, managers, and other professionals. Lisa is a member of the College of
Community Association Lawyers and in 2015, she was appointed by the Southeast Florida Chapter of Community Associations Institute as a Florida Legislative Alliance delegate.
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commute time.
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