How to Handle the Growing Challenges of
Service and Emotional Support Animals
What HOA and Condo Association Boards Can Do —
without Triggering Costly Legal Trouble
Thursday, July 26, 2018
2-3 p.m.
Eastern
An Exclusive HOAleader.com Webinar
With Practical
Tips for Condo and HOA Boards
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We hear you!
We're hearing from more and more HOA and condo board members and more and more community association experts that they're incredibly confused and frustrated by the changing landscape of service and emotional
support animals.
We know it wasn't an HOA where this happened, but surely you've heard the most recent case, where an airline refused to allow a woman to bring her alleged support peacock on board?
The HOA world also sees
seemingly outlandish situations, too. One of our management experts recently told us an owner requested an accommodation for a mini potbellied pig—but also requested an exception to the rules to house the pig in the backyard. Our expert's question: How can the animal be an emotional support animal if it lives in a pen outside?
We're here to inject facts and sanity into the discussion. Join us
for an in-depth webinar on July 26, where two experts with extensive experience in fair housing issues and law will tell you how you should and probably shouldn't respond to owners' requests for accommodation for any animal.
You'll get clear and helpful information on:
- Explaining service animals and emotional support animals and the difference between the two
- The 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 when it's entirely permissible to demand an owner remove an 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 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. |
| 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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| John Richards is the founder Richards Law PC, a Salt Lake City law firm that has successfully represented homeowner associations for more than a decade. He is licensed in Utah and Oregon and federal courts within those states. Richards is one of few attorneys in Utah to be admitted into the College of Community Association Lawyers, and he has been recognized as one of Utah's Top Rated- and Legal Elite- lawyers by Utah Business Management for many
years. Richards served as the president of the Utah Chapter of Community Association Institute in 2005; as a board member for several years; and now serves on CAI's Legislative Action Committee. |
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Plus, for one low price, you can get as many people on your condo or HOA
board to participate as you can fit around a speakerphone and a computer screen.
And now, with our special group membership offer, your entire board can attend—even from different locations. This offer requires an HOAleader.com Group Membership. When any group member orders, we will set up access for the entire group. Up to 10 users can attend for one low price. It's another incredible deal as part
of HOAleader.com Group Membership.
Because the conference is live, you can ask the speakers questions via the webinar interface. Many attendees tell us this is the most valuable part of the webinar.
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