Manchester
14 May 2010
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London
02 July 2010
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If you let to tenants who are claiming local housing allowances or housing benefits, you need to know how to avoid costly problems before it is too late...

In association with Settled Housing Solutions, we have designed a comprehensive Local Housing Allowance Seminar for private landlords, lettings agents and temporary accommodation suppliers who are either already operating in, or, considering entering into this profitable sub-market.

The programme for the day will include:
• How to successfully set up a LHA tenancy.
• The new Department of Work and Pensions/Communities and Local Government guidance on safeguard policies and direct payments to landlords.
• How LHA rates are calculated.
• Evidence required for housing benefit claims.
• Understanding Broad Rental Market Areas.
• Local authority ‘Landlord Assisted Schemes’ – how do they work.
• Understanding the legislative protocol to manage housing benefit claims.
• Understanding the role of the Valuation Office Agency (VOA).
• How to deal with overpayments.
• How to increase rental profits by knowing the system.
• Utilising local floating tenancy support services
• Ongoing LHA monitoring and performance: how it can be improved.

General advice on:
• Effective tenant referencing.
• How to avoid bad tenants.
• Eviction procedures.
• Recovering rent arrears and debt recovery.

The LHA Bible:
All delegates will also receive a comprehensive LHA manual. It is a comprehensive how-to guide that covers a range of LHA subjects and shows what to do, when to do it and how to do it. It will be indispensable for those who work with LHA tenants.

• Guidance notes on direct payments.
• Slides from the speakers.
• Template standard letters for rent arrears and landlord assisted scheme tenant referral forms.
• LHA process and decision maps.
• Useful contact numbers and Valuation Office Agency guidance on LHA.

This manual is only available to attendees and cannot be purchased anywhere else!

Price:
£250 per delegate including VAT

We are also able to design bespoke, in-house training. Contact us for more information.

Manchester
14 May 2010
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London
02 July 2010
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What you get:
• Four interactive seminar sessions given by experts in local housing allowances and housing benefit.
• Reference pack: ‘The Bible’, a comprehensive how-to guide with information on everything to do with LHA.
• Speakers slides and notes.
• Networking sessions with other industry professionals and landlords.
• Three course lunch and all day refreshments.

Previous Seminars:
The seminars held so far have also proved to be an excellent success and also a great opportunity for landlords and letting agents to network with other industry professionals. This is what some of the attendees had to say about the LHA Seminars:

“The LHA Seminar was extremely useful; it struck the right cord between being informative and keeping the information on a need-to-know basis. It would be easy to get bogged down in minute details but the team kept the sessions succinct and interesting. I would thoroughly recommend the seminar to any lettings managers wanting to get on top of their LHA tenancies. Dealing with Local Authorities can be confusing and time consuming so it’s useful to have the rules and regulations in black and white. I am quite sure the seminar would be beneficial to any landlords who are unsure of the process and benefits to the system”
Victoria Brewerton-Owen
Belvoir! The Lettings Specialist
Attended the London Seminar in Feb’2010

"As you know, we already work with the new Local Housing Allowance regime. I found the seminar to be very useful as there were certain parts of the LHA workings which I was not fully aware of. I appreciate that it is very difficult to cram all the information within a one day session but I feel that there was a lot of interaction and ample opportunity for all queries to be addressed and discussed. The manual is a great supplement for the course. It is hard to believe that this was the first time the course was held. I will definitely be looking for the rest of my team to attend this course in the near future. Thank you and congratulations"
Sailesh Shingadia
Procurement Manager - Notting Hill Housing
Attended the London Seminar in Feb’2010

In-House Training for Lettings and Managing Agents:
We can also work alongside lettings and accounts teams and deliver a comprehensive and bespoke LHA training and awareness programme, which can include:

• Introducing LHA rent arrears and void monitoring procedures
• Formulate tenancy support arrangements with the local floating support service.
• How to trigger LHA safeguard policy decisions
• Standard LHA tenant referral and safeguard letters
• Dealing with LHA overpayments and new claims
• Establishing links with your local Valuation Office Agency (VOA)
• Help secure temporary accommodation tender submissions
• Gathering evidence to secure ‘Direct Payments to Landlords
• LHA tenant referencing procedures.
• Debt recovering and eviction proceedings
• Utilising LHA landlord insurance products and services