Webinar Pets are the New Kids
Unleashing leasing & revenue potential
Event Details
Summary:
Today’s renters consider their pets vital members of their families, and operators must respond accordingly. This session will explore best practices in pet policy management, offering strategies for implementing pet-inclusive policies while highlighting their potential to positively impact your property's financial performance. It will also explore how to handle assistance animal accommodation requests and best manage pet and animal related risks. In addition, it will detail the latest legal news surrounding our four-legged friends from a liability perspective.
Takeaways:
● Recognize the growing importance of pets to today’s renters.
● Understand the financial advantages of embracing pet-pawsitive strategies, from increased occupancy to resident retention.
● Identify best practices for reviewing and updating pet policies to create a more pet-inclusive, resident-friendly approach.
● Gain clarity on legal and regulatory requirements and how they apply to reasonable accommodation requests for assistance animals.
● Recognize the operational risks related to pets and assistance animals.
Victoria Cowart, CPM, NAAEI Faculty, is the Director of Education & Outreach for PetScreening. Previously, she was a direct multi-family industry member with extensive experience providing management and oversight for multifamily housing communities (conventional & subsidized), mobile home communities, and HOAs. She is a property management instructor and a proud graduate of both the NAAEI Advance Facilitator Training and the NAA Lyceum Program.
Victoria obtained her degree in the Management of human resources and then her industry CPM designation. She was honored to be commissioned an SC “Palmetto Patriot,” to receive the Charleston Regional Business Journal’s Executive “Influential Women In Business,” and the NAA AIMS Grassroots Member Advocate of the Year. She has served the industry as President of both the local and state affiliates as well as having served as a Regional VP for Region IV for NAA. Victoria has chaired four Committees for NAA, most recently as the 2021 Legislative Chair.
Victoria is passionate about education, simplification, and creating ease and understanding for industry members. Victoria is a wife, mother, and a proud PetScreening pack member who also leads her own “pride” of three pound-kitties.
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