2027 Legal Seminar

A full day seminar reviewing a wide variety of legal topics affecting North Carolina landlords, including:

1. In-depth review of relevant NC and federal case precedents that affect evictions, habitability, required notices to residents, submetered water, and your rights/obligations as a NC landlord.
2. A review of NC's new squatter removal laws -- and when (and when not) to use these laws when compared to NC's normal eviction process.
3. NC Debt Collection Laws:  How they affect all aspects of residential landlord-law in NC -- and, thanks to recent case law, how accuracy in filing evictions is more important (and expensive) than ever.
4. NC's domestic violence laws -- including the rights to change locks and, in some scenarios, termination of the lease.
5. Navigate ever-evolving regulatory and legal changes involving a number of areas, including the Fair Housing Act, CARES Act, Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, Violence Against Women Act, fee disclosure requirements, etc. --  including a review of recent case precedents affecting these specific areas.
6. Evictions: A to Z – and how to anticipate/avoid common resident defenses (and potential legal pitfalls and liability) before and after filing any eviction case.
7. Common Landlord Myths:  How to avoid their many pitfalls by adopting best practices instead.
8. As always, as many attendee questions as we can pack into one day!

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Will Brownlee is an attorney licensed in NC, SC, and GA, and is the co-founder of two law firms serving landlords: Loebsack & Brownlee, PLLC and Brownlee Whitlow & Praet, PLLC. Over the course of his career, Will has focused entirely on all aspects of landlord-tenant law, including fair housing defense, evictions, legal compliance,  authoring the (now-retired) AANC Lease and serving as NAA's attorney in revisions to its NAA Lease Forms library for the Carolinas.  

In his service to the housing industry, Will has
served on state and local apartment association boards, as well as serving as the Executive Director of the Apartment Association of NC (AANC). Will was honored by being named to the AANC Hall of Fame in 2019, the Apartment Association of Western North Carolina (AAWNC’s) Hall of Fame in 2025, and in 2026, Will was honored to be the inaugural recipient of the South Carolina Apartment Association (SCAA)'s Lifetime Achievement Award.

In all, Will has served the rental industry for the last 29 years, though “semi-retiring” in 2018 but continuing to serve as Of Counsel for the two law firms bearing his name and still regularly appears in court for clients along the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia. When not appearing in court or teaching, Will loves spending time and traveling to new places with his wife, a now-retired property manager who leased Will his first apartment, thus beginning Will's love affair with the rental industry.