Borrower/Buyer Beware Fair Housing Training

Posted by on October 19, 2009

Borrower/Buyer Beware
National Fair Housing Training Academy

Participants engage in hands-on activities to help them identify and avoid deceptive practices, which impair home ownership.

FREE Seminar
To register, call (202) 314-3422 or visit http://www.nfhta.org.

Who Should Attend?
• Housing professionals
• Housing counselors
• Home buyers

Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
• Describe and explain the home-buying process.
• List and describe various statutes that prohibit lending discrimination.
• Explain protections under the Fair Housing Act.
• Understand the benefits/downfalls of refinancing and alternatives to refinancing.
• Differentiate between different types of loans and understand the advantages and disadvantages of each.
• Identify overly aggressive marketing techniques and what, if any, actions they can take to address them.
• Identify deceptive tactics and practices that consumers should avoid in the home-buying process.

Instructors:
Selected NFHTA faculty include:

Stella Adams
Luisa Melgarejo
Kathleen Diebold
Michael Mitchell
Lloyd London
Darlene Newbern
Jeffrey May
Steve Tomkowiak

**Lending Discrimination Oct 26-27 Philadelphia, PA
**Financial Aspects of Lending Oct 28-30 Philadelphia, PA
**Buyer Beware Nov 30 – Dec 1 Philadelphia, PA
**Preventing Foreclosure Dec 2-4 Philadelphia, PA

**This course is available in English & Spanish with Translation Services provided