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2024 Legal Seminar

Thursday, October 10, 2024
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (EDT)

* Registration open until 10/3/24 at 3:59 PM (EST)

Event Details

A full day seminar reviewing a wide variety of legal topics affecting North Carolina landlords, including:

  1. In-depth review of recent NC and federal case precedents that affect evictions, habitability, required notices to residents, submetered water, and your rights/obligations as a NC landlord.
  2. Discuss new and proposed federal rules in affecting a variety of areas – including “junk fees” and beyond – and analyze a watershed 2024 U.S. Supreme Court decision that could allow the rental industry to challenge these rules in the future.
  3. NC Debt Collection Laws – and how they affect all aspects of residential landlord-law in NC.
  4. Navigate the brave new world of industry litigation in number of areas, including the Fair Housing Act, CARES Act, Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, Violence Against Women Act, Antitrust enforcement, and more.
  5. Evictions: A to Z – and how to anticipate/avoid common resident defenses before filing any eviction.
  6. Common Landlord Myths:  How to avoid their many pitfalls and adopt best practices instead.
  7. As always, as many attendee questions as we can pack into one day!

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About the Instructor: Will Brownlee

Will Brownlee is an attorney licensed in GA, NC, and SC, and is the co-founder of two law firms serving landlords: Loebsack & Brownlee, PLLC and Brownlee Whitlow & Praet, PLLC.

Over the course of his career, Will has focused almost entirely on all aspects of landlord-tenant law. In his service to the housing industry, Will has served on state and local apartment association boards, as well as serving as the Executive Director of the Apartment Association of NC (AANC) and serving as the SC/NC consultant to the National Apartment Association (NAA) on its lease forms. Will was honored by being named to the AANC Hall of Fame in 2019. In all, Will has served the rental industry for nearly 27 years, though “semi-retiring” in 2018 but continuing to serve as Of Counsel for the two law firms bearing his name and still regularly appearing in court for clients along the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia.  

When not appearing in court or teaching, Will loves spending time and traveling to new places with his wife, a now-retired property manager who leased Will his first apartment – a fun story, just ask him sometime – thus beginning Will's love affair with the rental industry.