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Workshops and Seminars

Housing Law Seminars

TRC offers full-day seminars throughout the state for caseworkers, landlords, property managers and others who work with low- to moderate-income tenants in Wisconsin.

For more information: Call Brenda Speth at (608) 257-0143 between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays or e-mail to be added to our notification list.

Schedule for Spring 2008 (Click here to download and print the registration form and detailed information about the seminars!)

Dodgeville, Wednesday, April 16
Appleton, Tuesday, April 29
Milwaukee, Wednesday, April 30
Tomah, Tuesday, May 13
Beloit, Wednesday, May 21
Madison, Wednesday & Thursday, May 28 & 29

Who are Housing Law Seminars for?

TRC's Housing Law Seminars are useful for anyone who deals with questions about rental housing from either the consumer or provider perspective-caseworkers and advocates, property owners and managers, tenants, and law enforcement officers.

The day starts with an exercise to identify issues relevant to the participants and definitions of rental housing law terms. At the end of the day there is a question period to cover any additional topics that did not come up over the course of the day and require more discussion.

Locations, Time & Cost

TRC's Housing Law Seminars take place in the spring and fall in five to six cities around the state. This usually includes Madison and Milwaukee and rotates to other cities and towns annually. Since 2005, Housing Law Seminars have been scheduled in Appleton, Beloit, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Janesville, Kenosha, La Crosse, Oshkosh, Platteville, Racine, Stevens Point, Tomah and Waukesha.

Seminars begin at 8:30 a.m. and last until 4:00 p.m. with an afternoon break for lunch on your own. There are restaurants near all seminar locations. Casual environment - dress comfortably!

Pre-registration: $125 per person. Three or more from the same agency, only $100 each. Walk-in registration: $140 per person. Pre-registration is preferred; any seminar with less than 10 participants signed up one week in advance may be cancelled.

Pre-registration for the Madison day-and-a-half seminar: $150. Three or more from the same agency, only $125 each. Walk-in registration: $165.

In response to participant feedback, the Madison session of the Housing Law Seminars has been expanded to a day-and-a-half session for in-depth discussion of Dane County and Madison and Fitchburg ordinances.

Seminar Topics

Rental agreements, fair housing, security deposits, earnest money, ending a lease, problems during tenancy, eviction and small claims court, a Question & Answer Session and more.

Materials

Included in the seminar is our 200+ page Housing Counselor Training Guide (a $40 value), a training packet, and a complete set of TRC brochures, which your organization may copy and hand out to consumers.

About the Presenters

Brenda K. Konkel has been TRC's Executive Director since 1995. She earned her J.D. from the UW Law School in 1990 and has presented over 100 statewide seminars and hundreds of community presentations.

Megin McDonell began as a volunteer housing counselor in 1994 and has been TRC's Program Director since 1997. She has done over 60 of these statewide seminars and has trained over 100 of TRC's housing counselors.

Questions?

• Call Brenda Speth at (608) 257-0143 between 9:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays or e-mail for more information.

• Parking and other details will be sent to you in an e-mail confirmation of your registration.

• If you are an attorney interested in CLE credits, download the form from http://www.wicourts.gov/services/attorney/edu.htm and call Megin at (608) 257-0143 if you have questions.

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