• Landlording 101.
  This all-day workshop covers the basics of the rental business, from screening applicants through termination and final accounting. This is a great seminar for new managers and owners. The forms provided by Oregon Rental Housing Association are used as a tool for discussing the various aspects of the rental relationship. Whether you use those forms or others, you will learn a lot about the landlord tenant relationship.

These PRO workshops are all long and generally should be done during the day, or in a long evening.

• Fair Housing.
  This basic 4 1/2 hour workshop should be offered every two or three years, because everyone needs to hear this stuff more than once. At least I make it interesting, with actual Oregon cases.
   
• Section 8 & Other rental assistance programs and using for-cause notices.
  I like to co-teach this 4 hour seminar with someone from your local housing authority, since each housing authority does things slightly different. Aren’t landlords afraid of for-cause notices? They won’t be, after this workshop. They’ll learn how to use them effectively; often they’re better than a simple no-cause notice.
   
• Evictions.
  In this 4 1/2 hour workshop, I teach not only all the technical notice stuff (delivery, wording, counting time) and how to work through the court papers and process (I use handy flow charts), but ways to avoid all that. Evictions are expensive and no one wins; so we’ll look for ways to give recalcitrant tenant incentive to move.
   
• Landlord Tenant Law Update.
  This 5 to 6 hour workshop covers the basics of landlord tenant law, with an emphasis on what has changed recently (the legislature tinkers every two years with the law).

These shorter workshops are suited to an evening:

• Tenant screening.
  With screening criteria in the law, learn how to develop screening guidelines that work for you; then how to pick tenants who fit them in this 2 or 3 hour workshop. Learn how to check out references. Keep the bad guys out of your property. Some play-acting makes the workshop entertaining, as well.
   
• Terminations.
  This 2-hour workshop takes the parts out of the “Section 8, etc.” and “Evictions” Pro workshops that deal with how to use notices when things aren’t going well; from warning notices through termination notices. 72’s, for cause, no cause, and the rest. When folks go away from this one, they know how to do it, and how to do it right.
   
• Abandoned Property.
  Using the “Abandoned Property” book with its flow charts as a text, this 2-hour workshop covers everything about the process there is. Real-life examples make the time entertaining as well as educational.
   
• Forms.
  This workshop uses the ORHA forms and the Forms Manual, focusing on the most essential forms, how to use them correctly. This 2 to 3 hour workshop serves as a primer for people new to the business, but has a bunch of ideas and suggestions for the veterans, as well.