Professional Publishing, Inc PO Box 30327 Portland, OR 97294-3327 Current Resident or PRSRT STD US Postage PAID Snohomish, WA Permit #5 Advertise in Rental Housing Journal - Utah Circulated to over 6,000 Apartment owners, On-site, and Maintenance personnel monthly. Call 503-221-1260 for more info. March 2014 - Vol. 6 Issue 2 Rental Housing Journal Utah 4. Legislative Update: New Security Deposit Rules will Benefit both Landlords and Tenants 5. President's Message: Legislature in Full Swing 6. Products & Services Guide WWW.RENTALHOUSINGJOURNAL.COM • PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING, INC Official PublicatiOn Of the utah' s leading advOcate fOr the rental hOusing i ndustry • 888-244-0401 • WWW.uaahQ.Org UPCOMING EVENTS: General Membership Meetings All meetings 7 pm – for addresses go to www.uaageneralmembershipmeetings.com March 25th Ogden March 26th Orem March 27th Salt Lake April 16th Rent-A-Palooza 2014 Fair Housing Education Conference & Trade Show South Towne Expo Center James and Steve Terry Receive Lifetime Achievement Award J ames L. Terry and Stephen Ben Ter- ry were recently honored as recipi- ents of the Prestigious 2013 lifetime Achievement from the Utah Apart- ment Association. Over 550 attended the annual awards dinner including many of James and Steve’s family, current and previous employees. Both James and Steve started their careers in the apartment industry on-site. James started as an on-site manager on 365 units in in Denver in 1976. From there he transferred to Memphis Tennessee to a larger and more difficult 540 unit commu- nity and was successful in bringing that property to a positive cash flow. Shortly after he was given respon- sibility supervising six other south- eastern properties as a result of his success. Prior to beginning his career in the apartment industry Steve Terry worked as a contract employee for the defense department in Vietnam. In 1976 he began working as a gener- al property manager for Prowswood Corp, where he oversaw 2,000 apart- ment units and the development of 4 additional apartment communi- ties totaling 2,000 additional units. After five years, Steve felt he had Continued on page 3 Bill Gephardt to Keynote 2014 Education Conference Protecting Consumers from Bad Landlords • Basic principles of distinguishing yourself as a trustworthy and ethical business • How to avoid complaints and stay out of trouble • Stories of unprofessional landlords that Bill has encountered in his career Consumer advocate, investiga- tive reporter and entrepreneur Bill Gephardt will be the keynote speak- er at the 2014 Fair Housing Education Conference and Trade Show on April 16th from 8-5 pm at the South Towne Expo “This will be our biggest and best show yet”, say Kallie Holm, UAA events director who organizes the show. “Last year we had 1,200 attendees and with Bill Gephardt speak- ing, we expect an even better turnout.” Bill Gephardt, the “Most trusted name in Utah” built his career as an investigative television report for over 30 years and became known as a tireless and dedicated advocate for Utah consumers. In 2011 Gephardt retired from his job at KUTV News and started Gaphardtapproved.com to advertise companies that are ethi- cal and pass extensive investiga- tions. GephardtApproved.com takes Bill's dedication to consumers in a new, exciting and positive direction. Instead of getting involved after a dispute has occurred, Bill and his qualified team are now proactively investigating businesses, and high- lighting and recommending only those who prove the most trustwor- thy, through their practices, policies and positive track record with cus- tomers. To attend Bill’s presentation at the Education Conference, go to www.uaatradeshow.com 5 "You don’t know everything yet”, and “what you don’t know CAN hurt you!” Take advantage of a one day chance to learn new threats, risks, skills and knowledge to help you protect yourself and make your life and business easier and more profitable. 4 Learn from Bill Gephardt what to do so that you never end up on the news for making a stupid mis- take. 3 Think what you could do with $1,000s given away during lunch or $500s at the end of the day! 2 The theme of the Tradeshow is musical genres and there will be lots of people dressed up as your favorite performers and bands. Plan on seeing Elvis, John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever attire and lots of rock and roll hairstyles. Just imagine the people watching you can do! 1 Your competitors will be there – can you afford not to be? 5 Reasons to Attend the 2014 Education Conference and Trade Show
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Advertise in Rental Housing Journal - Utah Circulated to over 6,000 Apartment owners, On-site, and
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March 2014 - Vol. 6 Issue 2Rental Housing Journal Utah
4. Legislative Update: New Security Deposit Rules will Benefit both Landlords and Tenants
5. President's Message: Legislature in Full Swing
6. Products & Services Guide
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UPCOMING EVENTS:General Membership Meetings All meetings 7 pm – for addresses go to www.uaageneralmembershipmeetings.com
March 25th OgdenMarch 26th OremMarch 27th Salt Lake
April 16th Rent-A-Palooza 2014 Fair Housing Education Conference & Trade Show South Towne Expo Center
James and Steve Terry Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
James L. Terry and Stephen Ben Ter-ry were recently honored as recipi-
ents of the Prestigious 2013 lifetime Achievement from the Utah Apart-ment Association. Over 550 attended the annual awards dinner including many of James and Steve’s family, current and previous employees.
Both James and Steve started their careers in the apartment industry on-site. James started as an on-site
manager on 365 units in in Denver in 1976. From there he transferred to Memphis Tennessee to a larger and more difficult 540 unit commu-nity and was successful in bringing that property to a positive cash flow. Shortly after he was given respon-sibility supervising six other south-eastern properties as a result of his success.
Prior to beginning his career in the apartment industry Steve Terry worked as a contract employee for the defense department in Vietnam. In 1976 he began working as a gener-al property manager for Prowswood Corp, where he oversaw 2,000 apart-ment units and the development of 4 additional apartment communi-ties totaling 2,000 additional units. After five years, Steve felt he had
Continued on page 3
Bill Gephardt to Keynote 2014 Education Conference
Protecting Consumers from Bad Landlords• Basicprinciplesofdistinguishingyourselfasatrustworthyandethicalbusiness• Howtoavoidcomplaintsandstayoutoftrouble• StoriesofunprofessionallandlordsthatBillhasencounteredinhiscareer
Consumer advocate, investiga-tive reporter and entrepreneur Bill Gephardt will be the keynote speak-eratthe2014FairHousingEducation Conference and Trade Show on April 16th from 8-5 pm at the South Towne Expo
“This will be our biggest and bestshowyet”,sayKallieHolm,UAA events director who organizes
the show. “Last year we had 1,200 attendees
and with Bill Gephardt speak-
ing, we expect an even better turnout.” Bill Gephardt, the “Most trusted
name in Utah” built his career as an investigative television report for over 30 years and became known as a tireless and dedicated advocate for Utah consumers. In 2011 Gephardt retired from his job at KUTV News and started Gaphardtapproved.com to advertise companies that are ethi-cal and pass extensive investiga-tions.
GephardtApproved.com takes Bill's dedication to consumers in a
new, exciting and positive direction. Instead of getting involved after a dispute has occurred, Bill and his qualified team are now proactively investigating businesses, and high-lighting and recommending only those who prove the most trustwor-thy, through their practices, policies and positive track record with cus-tomers.
To attend Bill’s presentation at the Education Conference, go to www.uaatradeshow.com
UTAH
5 "You don’t know everything yet”, and “what you don’t know CAN hurt you!” Take advantage of a one day chance to learn new threats, risks, skills and knowledge to help you protect yourself and make your life and business easier and more profitable.
4 Learn from Bill Gephardt what to do so that you never end up on the news for making a stupid mis-take.
3 Think what you could do with $1,000s given away during lunch or $500s at the end of the day!
2 The theme of the Tradeshow is musical genres and there will be lots of people dressed up as your favorite performers and bands. Plan on seeing Elvis, John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever attire and lots of rock and roll hairstyles. Just imagine the people watching you can do!
1 Your competitors will be there – can you afford not to be?
5 Reasons to Attend the 2014
Education Conference and Trade Show
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Terry Brothers...continued from front page
gained the experience and expertise necessary to start his own manage-ment company. So in 1981 he started Emerson International, which in a short time bloomed into the largest private management company in the Western United States with a port-folio of more than 12,000 apartment units and 1.5 million square feet of commercial space. Eventually Steve sold Emerson but continued to work in the succeeding companies as a re-gional executive.
In 1985, after 9 years of working for different companies, including in Tennessee, Utah, Kentucky and Tex-as, James Terry moved to Utah where he united with his brother and be-came President of Emerson Interna-tional and was responsible for all fac-ets of property management in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington. When Emerson International sold its management contracts in 1991, James remained as the President and was responsible for 7 regional vice presidents, 350 employees, 8,500 apartment units and 500,000 ft² of commercial space. In this position, James was distin-guished for doubling the regional net profit. Sovereign/Emerson merged with Phoenix Mutual Life and Good-man Management to become Pinna-cle Realty Management in 1994.
In receiving the award Steve terry talked about how grateful he was to live in theUnitedStates.Hesaidthat achieving this award and what
they have accomplished in their ca-reers would only have been possible in America. “We aren’t talking about 2nd generation money here,” said Steve. We both started in the trench-es, as managers then moving up and learning the business we were fortu-nate to be able to take advantage of other opportunities.
More about Steve• Steve is an internationally recog-
nized expert on worldwide Real Estate markets and foreign invest-ment in the U.S. He was a keyspeaker at the World Congress of Real Estate, opening speaker at the International Academy of Real Estate. key speakers at the World Appraisal Conference. and the concluding speaker at the World Congress of Real Estate.
• Steve began International Devel-opment Group, Inc. (IDG) which has developed or acquired 23 af-fordable apartment communities in Utah and Nevada totaling 2,750 multi-family units valued at ap-proximately $235 million as well as 5 market-rate, luxury apart-ment communities totaling 635 units. IDG has been the recipient ofelven9%LIHTCallocationsandeight private activity bond alloca-tions valued at $195 million total. Additionally, IDG has developed several specialized, vertically in-tegrated, live-work environments that include multi-family, office
and retail uses combined into one mixed-use community. Currently 3 more such communities are in pre-development.
• Steve began Horizon Investmentand Management Corp. in 1994 which is an Accredited Manage-ment Organization which man-ages more than 6,000 apartments and several hundred thousand square feet of retail and office com-mercialspace.Horizonutilizes30years of expertise and reputation in order to acquire the best profes-sional management professionals in the industry.Horizon also hasthe finest training systems and motivational bonus program in the multi-family arena. Horizonhas developed one of the most respectedLIHTCcompliancesys-temsinthenationalwith6HCCPpersonnel.Horizoniscurrentlyinthe process of evolving into Cor-nerstone Residential as it updates, improves and elevates itself to the highest levels of professional property management.
• Steve is a Certified PropertyManager (CPM-1980), Certified Apartment Property Supervisor (CAPS-1988), Registered Property Manager (RPM-1989) and a Reg-istered Investment Member (RIM-1990).Hismanagementcompany,Emerson International became an Accredited Management Organi-zation in 1985, and Horizon hasbeen an Accredited Management Company since 1999.
•Steve is fluent in conversationalMandarin Chinese, having spent two years in the Republic of China as a missionary, and having visit-edTaiwan,HongKong,Singaporeand the PRC many times as a busi-nessman and Sinologist (student of Chinese history, language and culture).
•StevegraduatedMagnafromBYUin 1976, having earned his degree in just two years.
•Steve is married to Kellie MarieGladeTerry.Hehasfivedaughtersand two sons: Lisa age 37 (gradu-ated with a masters from Boston University, now living in Seattle), twins Amelia and Emely both 32 (Amelia is a graduate of the Uni-versity of Utah, Emily is a gradu-ate of BYU), Leah Marie, who is almost 9 years old, and Lydia Charlotte who is nearly 8 years old (both are in elementary school in a special Mandarin Chinese to-tal emersion program), Spencer Ben who is 5 years old, and Joshua
Victor who is 3.
More about James• In 1999, James became the Presi-dentofHorizonandwasrespon-sible for managing the growth and stability of that relatively new company. Horizon origi-nally started as the management company of IDG that built 1 to 2 communities per year desiring to create a third-party management portfolio. Under James’ supervi-sion, Horizon grew to 18 ownedand 28 third-party apartment communities.
• As a turnaround, rehabilitation,association, and market specialist and as a widely accepted property management expert, James has been responsible for the supervi-sion of real estate assets totaling more than $2.5 billion.
• James has directly supervisedthe management of over 105,000 apartment and condominium units in 15 states from California to South Carolina.
• JamesTerryspeaksconversationalJapanese and has been an integral part of establishing many tenured contract relationships with major Japanese institutional and indi-vidual buyers.
• Jameshasbeenaninstructorwiththe Utah Division of Real Estate since 1996 and is approved to teach special Utah approved real estate classes.
• James has been aCertified Prop-erty Manager (CPM) with the In-stitute of Real Estate Management since 1982. In 1999 and most re-cently in 2013 James was awarded the Certified Property Manager of the year.
• James is a National Faculty In-structor for the Institute of Real Estate Management and listed in 2003 as one of the top ten highest rated “Ethic” instructors based on student evaluations.
• James is a former president ofIREM’s local chapter 33 in 2000 and is on the Current National fac-ulty of the Institute of Real Estate Management.
• With the Apartment Associa-tion, James is a Certified Apart-ment Manager (CAM), Accredited Residential Manager (ARM) and former Apartment Association in-structor for the CAM course and ultimately became responsible for all CAM training in Salt Lake City. Hewas responsible for directingand implementing a program with
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"Freedom... Economy... Conve-nience... The Apartment HouseWay" was the theme of the first ever Apartment House Week held fromAugust 27-September 2, 1939.
At the time of this first Trade Show the Association was only five years old. The board of direc-tors gathered the group’s brightest minds together in effort to promote the apartment industry. Despite an economy still affected by the great depression, and overwhelming war tension across the world the solu-tion was simple: gathering together everybody connected to the Apart-ment industry for a trade show. Be-cause of the economy the number of renters was increasing, and with so many being impacted by the Apart-mentHouse Industry a trade showwould be a great way to improve the industry and educate landlords and the public.A Committee consisting of Har-
vey Ross, W.S Barton, Richard E. Ashton, V. A. Bettilyon and F. Orin Woodbury was organized to put the trade show together. The Director of the Apartment House AssociationofUtahHarveyRoss,waschosento
chair that Committee. When asked about Apartment House Week hesaid that the association hoped to give landlords “information as to courteous treatment, fair practices and improved methods.”
Times were tough back then. The daybeforethefirstApartmentHouseWeek ended fears of war in Europe were realized as Nazi Germany in-vaded Poland, starting World War II. But through everything that would come in the following decades the Utah Apartment Association has continued to offer our members in-formation, training and networking through our annual Trade Show and other events.
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Legislative Update:New Security Deposit Rules will Benefit both
Landlords and TenantsThe 2014 Legislative session was wild and crazy as sessions always are, but we came out very well. This doesn't happen by itself. There were hundreds of hours
put in by our members, committees, lobbyists and staff. Thanks to all who work so hard to protect us.
The biggest issues:Radon regulation - We were able
to help defeat efforts to require man-datory and overzealous radon inspections whenever tenants move in or out. This costs between $250 and $300 every time a tenant moved in or out and requires you to sit empty a couple of weeks waiting for test results. Unfortunately there will always be people, including the test-ing industry, who want to impose these requirements on us. We are going to remain vigilant in helping the legislature understand the bur-den that mandatory testing would be for rental operations.
We remind you to be aware of this issue and thoroughly ventilate your units and deal with potential haz-ards. If we are vigilant and reduce
problems, the need to pass regula-tions is reduced.
Restrictive regulations on wood burning fireplaces -No bills were passed, due in part to our efforts, to require mandatory testing of fire-places at each move in/move out as has been proposed. In addition, we were able to get language in the divi-sion of real estate statute that state agencies like Department of Air Quality must get approval from the Real Estate commission before regu-lating real estate transactions. That will assure there is a thorough and fair process before government uses regulatory authority to inpact our business.
Rental unit inspections - While we believe Salt Lake City is violating state law (which says no random rental housing inspections are allowed unless there is cause or com-plaint), we have agreed with the city to sit down with them and talk this year about legalizing some inspec-tions for legitimate health and safety reasons for some properties. In the meantime they have agreed to not enforce any penalty for refusing to let your property be inspected. Let’s be clear - INSPECTORS ARE STILL
GOING TO ASK TO DO INSPECTIONS – however you can refuse with no penalty while we work through the issue with them.
Deposit dispositions - This is our favorite bill this session. In addition to the following, this bill also awards damages to prevailing parties in deposit disputes. This means if you are sued frivolously, or if you lose in small claims court and have to appeal to district court and win there, your tenant will have to pay your court fees and attorneys costs. A summary of the new law follows.
SB 147 Residential Renter's Deposits (Summary)1. The problem:
While the vast majority of land-lords return deposits on a timely basis, a small percentage are not doing this properly and we need to strengthen the statute to protect rent-ers and assure they receive deposits back in a timely fashion.2. The solution:
Change the statute in the follow-ing ways:• Clarify that refundsor an expla-
nation of charges MUST be sent within 30 days (currently if a ten-ant doesn't give a forwarding address a landlord can keep the deposit until they do).
• Createanoticetocurethatcanbeserved by a tenant to a landlord if deposit or explanation of charges not received within 30 days. Notice gives landlord 5 days to return it to the address requested or face penalties.
• Increase the penalty to the fullamount of the deposit, plus $100, court costs and attorney's fees.
3. How it affects the public Improvements for tenants:
• Raisesthepenaltyfornotreturn-ing a deposit on time to 100% of the amount of the deposit plus $100, instead of just $100.
• It provides a potentially quickerresolution than litigation by hav-
ing tenants serve the landlord a notice to comply in 5 court days or face the penalty. We think this will get more renters their depos-its back quicker than litigation because many landlords either forget to return it or don't under-stand the penalties. This 5 day notice will remind and educate them).
• Currently if no forwardingaddress is given, landlords have no obligation to return deposits. This change requires refund even if no address is given, in 30 days. Must be sent to last known address.
• Allows the tenant to give a cor-rect address on the 5 day notice (if they haven't received it) so they can for sure get their refund or itemized list of deductions.
Improvements for landlords:• Itmirrorsthefitpremisesactand
city zoning practices by giving a landlord an opportunity to cure (5 days) if they forget to comply or don't understand the law. A lot of landlords, especially those who own the over 100,000 single fam-ily homes that are rented in Utah, simply don't know the rules or penalties. This gives them a chance to make right and be edu-cated prior to a penalty.
• Allows landlords to send thedeposit to the last known address if we don't have a better one and requires the tenant to give us their new address if they don't get our letter.
• Providesattorney’sfeesandcourtcosts to prevailing parties so if you are sued frivolously and win, the tenant must pay your costs.
Rentals in HOA's protections - We inserted language in the deposits bill that deal with overzealous boards being too controlling of rentals. We also are working this summer on a billtopreventHOA'sfromchargingrentals higher fees than they charge
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Life is busy. We all know that. Work, fami-ly, and other activities take a toll on us and we need to be selective of what we put on our schedule.
One thing that defiantely deserves to be on your schedule is theUAAFairHousingConferenceand Trade Show on April 16th at the South Towne Expo Center. Whether you own one unit or manage 10,000
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The Education classes this year will be better than ever. There are over 25 classes, with a variety that
allow everyone to find topics that interest and benefit them. I am par-ticularly excited to hear from Bill Gephart about consumer protection and how to run our rental business-es in ways that enhance the con-sumer experience. I am looking for-ward to what he has learned about bad landlords from years of investi-
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homeowners. Expect action on that next year. For now, the new law:Housing Authorities abuses - In
lieu of legislation to reign in abusive housing authority practices, the housing authorities agreed to hold quarterly meetings with us to review abuses, assure they are following their own policies, and assure their policies do not exceed those required byHUD.Duringthisyear,thehous-ing authorities have asked us to doc-ument cases where the agencies or employees are not taking good care of landlords or are violating their own rules. Please notify me of any of the following:1. Report any problems you are hav-ingorhavehad towithHousingAuthorities to the UAA. Email them with specific names (such as tenant, which housing authority and name of caseworker) to paul@
uaahq.org so we can give the hous-ing authorities a chance to make it right or take it to their peers if they don't.
2. Report any tenants you think are still on housing assistance that you have evicted or have a judgment against so theHousingAuthoritycan help hold them accountable.
3. If you have had rent withheld or money billed back to you by a Housing Authority, notify us sowe research whether proper pro-cedures were followed.If we can't solve the problem
through communication and regular meetings, we may have to run legis-lationlikeHousingAuthoritiesagainnext year. HB 310 would haveallowed landlords to opt out of work-ing with federal housing subsidy programs and allow them to choose which housing authorities they wanted to work with. Utah is one of only a handful states that don't allow landlords to choose whether or not to
work with federal housing subsidy programs like Section 8. Many land-lords feel that like doctors (who can opt out of Medicare if they don't want to have to jump through the hoops of the program) we should be able to decide if we want to work with federal housing programs. Many felt that some housing authori-ties were abusing them and not fol-lowing their own rules in imple-menting the federal program. The bill would have allowed landlords to:
a)Refuse tosign theHAPagree-ment (the government's agree-ment that modifying a land-lords contract)
b) Refuse to participate in a gov-ernment program
c) Refuse to work with a specific Housing Authority that treatslandlords poorly
However,theUAAwantedfirsttowork out a deal to get housing . We hope they make serious efforts to resolve these issues.
Collecting Social Security Numbers on minors and proper storage of sensitive data -
We were made aware of pending legislation to require landlords to keep social security numbers more secure from the risk of identity theft, and to specify that landlords cannot collect social security numbers on minors. Apparently a legislator heard that landlords were collecting SSN information on minors and that the way landlords are storing personal information was not secure. We have
made a deal with this legislator to:• Reinforcebyeducationthatland-
lords should not collect social security numbers for minors
• Encourage all landlords andapartment communities to increase safeguards that protect personal information such as using double locked filing cabi-nets, never leavening files with personal info on desks, etc.
Please take this issue seriously by carefully guarding Social Security #s and not collecting them from minors so the issue does not come back.
Anti-Discrimination Bill - Senate Bill 100 - The Senate has chosen, because of the pending Supreme Court case on anti-discrimination issues, not to hear any anti-discrimi-nation bills this session. Supporters are trying to break that logjam, but it will be an uphill battle. We remind you the UAA does not support dis-crimination against people because of sexual orientation or gender iden-tity. We run businesses and only dis-criminate against people for risk fac-tors. Many UAA members have LGBT tenants who are incredible cus-tomers, pay on time and take great care of their places. We encourage you to never consider sexual orienta-tion or gender identity in your deci-sion making - you should judge peo-ple on their past record as tenants, credit worthiness as a customer, and ability to comply with contracts.
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