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Legal Risk and Litigation

How property managers prevent and handle lawsuits, fair housing and legal risk.

106 lessons

Power Over Tenants: 5-Min Introduction

Limiting Litigation: The Balance of Power

Preventing Litigation: Managing Foreclosures

Preventing Litigation

Top Ten Mistakes: Failing to Study the Laws That Govern Property Management

Top Ten Mistakes Property Managers Make

Build Customized Lease: Stip 10, Abandonment and Returning Keys

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Power Over Tenants ONE

Limiting Litigation: The Balance of Power

Preventing Litigation: Unlawful Dispossessory

Preventing Litigation

Top Ten Mistakes: Failing to Develop an Owner-Tenant Handbook

Top Ten Mistakes Property Managers Make

Build Customized Lease: Stip 11, Use of the Property

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Preventing Litigation: Managing Mold Claims

Preventing Litigation

Top Ten Mistakes: Management Models

Top Ten Mistakes Property Managers Make

Build Customized Lease: Stip 12, Pets and Pests

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Preventing Litigation: Mold Example From Savannah

Preventing Litigation

Top Ten Mistakes: Discounting Fees

Top Ten Mistakes Property Managers Make

Build Customized Lease: Stips 13-14, Liability and Waiver

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Preventing Litigation: Distributing to the Wrong Owner

Preventing Litigation

Top Ten Mistakes: Join a Trade Association

Top Ten Mistakes Property Managers Make

Build Customized Lease: Stip 15, Notices

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Preventing Litigation: Lead-Based Paint

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stips 16-17, Default and Remedies

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Preventing Litigation: They Trashed My House

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stip 18, Early Termination

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Preventing Litigation: When Rodents Move In Without a Lease

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stip 19, Catch-All (Vehicles, Utilities)

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

What Lawyers Don’t Know: How to Identify a Great Lawyer

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stip 20, Breaches and Post Move-Out Recovery

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

What Lawyers Don’t Know: ‘I Can Trust What Lawyers Tell Me’

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stip 21, Alterations and Improvements

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

What Lawyers Don’t Know: Ask Questions You Know the Answer To

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stip 22, Homeowners Associations

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Robert Gilstrap: Profits Are High and Litigation Almost Zero

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stips 23-25

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Monica Gilroy: Snipes v. CMC, Mold and the Entire Agreement Clause

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stip 26, Offers to Purchase

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Robert Locke NARPM Class: Managing Litigation (Full 2.7-Hour Recording)

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stips 27-29, Fees and Revenue Streams

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Monica Gilroy: What Lawyers Don’t Know, So Ask Them Questions

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stips 30-32

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Preventing Litigation, Part 1

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stips 33-34, Crime, Safety and Smoke Detectors

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Preventing Litigation

Preventing Litigation

Build Customized Lease: Stips 35-36 (Wrap-Up)

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Managing Litigation: Orlando Breakout (71 Min)

Preventing Litigation

Customized PMA Stip 1: Start Date

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

How to Keep a Tenant: The Cost of a Vacancy, Deferred Maintenance and Mold

Preventing Litigation

Customized PMA Stip 1: End Date

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Customized PMA: Stip 12, Scope of Service

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Building Your Customized PMA, Class 3, Lesson 3: Stip 6, Management and Legal Proceedings

Building a Customized Lease Agreement

Stip 8 and 16(D): Rehab Premium and Limits on Services

Building a Customized Lease Agreement