Be the Change: Fair Housing and You - FR® Virtual Campus Series

Description

Florida REALTORS® Virtual Campus Series presents "Be the Change - Fair Housing and You" a 2-hour Specialty CE credit course. This course meets the NAR biennial Fair Housing requirement.

Newsday, an American daily newspaper serving Nassau and Suffolk counties in the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, published the results of a three-year investigation into alleged discrimination by real estate agents in the communities on Long Island, NY, in 2019. A major result of this investigation brought forth the need for real estate licensee education on Fair Housing.

The purpose of this class is to provide real estate professionals working in today’s diverse real estate environment with the knowledge and information they need to understand the importance of fair housing laws and ensure they are responsibly practicing real estate in a nondiscriminatory fashion.

Objectives - After taking this class students will be able to: 

• Define and understand the topic of Fair Housing
• Describe the history of Fair Housing Laws and why they are important
• Understand Florida State and County level Fair Housing Protections
• Explain the Seven Protected Classes and the characteristics of each
• Recognize activities prohibited under Fair Housing Laws and what actions are illegal
• Understand how Fair Housing Laws affect Advertising & Marketing and describe best practices
• Explain Steering and Redlining and recognize the danger in making assumptions based on stereotypes
• Define and recognize explicit and implicit bias
• Explain the effects of bias in Fair Housing and how to prevent it
• Identify exemptions to Fair Housing Laws and adherence to Reasonable Accommodations
• Know what resources are available to provide Fair Housing information to clients

Meet the Instructor: April K. Hall-Lloyd, GRI, CIPS, SRES, AHWD, GKC

April is a Florida native and a graduate of the University of North Florida.

April has over 25+ years of combined experience in Mortgage Lending, Project Management, Property Management and Real Estate sales. After retiring in 2018 as a Vice President of Merrill Lynch’s mortgage operations, she left the lending side to pursue her passion for Sales and obtained her Real Estate license in 2018.

April’s target audience is Buyer, Seller, and Investors both domestic and international. She has intensive knowledge of Property Management. She is a proud member of the National Association of Residential Properly Managers, the Real Estate Business Institute, and the Women’s Council of Realtors.

She is an outstanding leader, team member, trainer, and mentor. Her experience includes but is not limited to all aspects of management, on-boarding, process development, implementing process improvements and training. April has been intimately involved in training new and seasoned associates at her brokerage. April is passionate about people, building cohesive teams, strategic partnership, and development of the next group of industry leaders.

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