JAHMA Talk Winter 2017

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TalkNew Jersey Affordable Housing Management Association

inside New Website Launched Dec. 20

2 A fresh, clean design with new features maximizes JAHMA’s web presence

New Year, The new year is always Jo Ann McKay said. “It’s a The new JAHMA website went
New Look a great time to launch secure payment gateway live Dec. 20 at jahma.org.
a fresh look. and will make your life easier
4 On Tuesday, Dec. 20, as well as save time on servers, so it’s more secure
the new jahma.org was administrative needs in the and saves you work.”
Fall Recap launched complete with office.”
an updated look and new >>CONTINUE ON PAGE 2
6 features. The payments are secure
through the web industry
JAHMA Scholars At the top of the feature standard processor Stripe.
list is the ability to make
8 payments on the website. “[Businesses] achieve
Members can now pay for PCI-DSS compliance
NAHMA Winter their membership online for payments just by
Meeting and also make the payment implementing Stripe’s
recurring. client-side tokenization
10 in Stripe.js or our iOS and
“We are thankful to offer Android bindings,” according
Associate Member this feature on the website,” to Stripe’s website. “No
Spotlight JAHMA Executive Director sensitive data hits your

12 Dedicated to improving professional skills and
knowledge in the affordable housing industry
VAWA Update

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NAHMA Calendar

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Associate Member
Directory

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Columbia University Professor Dr. Lance Freeman at the Governor’s Conference

Fall 2016 Recap of Events

by Season of Education Finishes Well

the Fall training events draw nearly 130 participants

numbers Now that the new
year is here, it’s
59 time to reflect on
People attended JAHMA’s 2016 fall schedule,
the Fair Housing which included three major
Compliance Course events.
on Sept. 9 in Edison
Fair Housing Compliance Vice President of Property Management at Moderate Income
29 The Fair Housing Management Co., Deborah Gershen Gennello speaks at the Tax
Credit Continuing Education Seminar on Nov. 22.
People attended the Compliance Course was
Tax Credit Training & held on Sept. 9 at the Center in Princeton, N.J. at Moderate Income
Sheraton Edison Hotel The course covered Management Co., was the
SHCMTM Exam Raritan Center. instructor.
Nov. 2-3 in Princeton all of the key Low Income
NAHMA’s Fair Housing Housing Tax Credit program Tax Credit Continuing
41 Compliance Course trains regulations and more. Education Seminar
property managers to
People attended the understand complex fair The Specialist in Housing The seminar was
Tax Credit Continuing housing regulations. Credit ManagementTM presented by JAHMA and
certification was developed PennDel AHMA on Nov. 22
Education Seminar The course is a by NAHMA for management at the NJHA Conference and
Nov. 22 in Princeton requirement for NAHMA’s professionals involved with Event Center.
National Affordable Housing properties developed and
4 | JAHMA TALK Professional (NAHP) operated under the LIHTC The seminar qualified
certification program. program. for six hours of continuing
education credits for those
With 59 participants, There were 29 students who needed them.
Gwen Volk, of Gwen Volk in the fall course and
INFOCUS Inc., was the Deborah Gershen Gennello, There were 41 attendees
instructor. CPM, NAHP-e, vice president and Gershen was once
of property management again the instructor. J
Tax Credit Training &
SHCMTM Exam

Presented by JAHMA
and PennDel AHMA, the Tax
Credit Training & SHCMTM
Exam was Nov. 2-3 at the
NJHA Conference and Event





centers near her home at Atlantic to become a police officer. bilingual Rutgers students to serve as
Marina in Atlantic City. She credits Focused on and driven by his career Spanish interpreters for the under-served
the encouragement of her parents Spanish-speaking patients at community
and her desire to be a role model goal, he has already become a certified health clinics. She has also worked
for her daughter for her academic Emergency First Responder and took law at the J. Crew store in Princeton for
accomplishments. enforcement classes at Ocean County several years to gain practical business
College as a senior in high school. experience.
Marketing Major Acing Her Classes
Earning a 3.63 GPA at Ocean County He also graduated from the New JAHMA Foundation Information
Jersey State Police Trooper Youth These are examples of the
College this 20-year-old received her Week’s 100th class. He has been a
associate degree in May 2016. In the final martial arts student for 10 years earning hardworking, focused, and dedicated
16 classes she completed at OCC she his black belt. He also has his scuba students that make up the 2016 JAHMA
received 15 A’s. certification. His focus and dedication Scholars Class.
have led him through a variety of
She is now enrolled as a Marketing educational experiences that are helping Scholarship funds raised by the
major at Rider University looking to him achieve his goal. JAHMA Foundation help students avoid
continue her strong academic success. costly and burdensome loans. These
Her goal is to work for a company that Non-Profit Passion Fuels Rutgers Senior funds can be the difference between
focuses on assisting small businesses This senior at Rutgers University going to school and not attending for
through individual market research some students.
specific to their industry. is majoring in Human Resources
Management with a minor in Business The 2017 JAHMA scholarship
Impressive Resume for Future Officer Administration. application will be available at the
As a freshman during the 2016/2017 beginning of February. Continue to
Since the fall of 2013, she has worked check jahmafoundation.org for 2017
school year at Marshall University, this at the New Brunswick Community information. Help us spread the word in
Laurel Oaks Apartments resident hopes Interpreter Project. This agency is a non- your communities. J
profit organization that recruits and trains

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Associate Member Spotlight

the Tenants May Profit from

spot a Landlord’s Investment

Ehrlich, By Hon. Mahlon L. Fast, JSC Ret., Ehrlich, Petriello, Gudin and Plaza, P.C.
Petriello, Gudin
and Plaza, P.C. When a Landlord manage to get from the does not want a tenant
gives a tenant boarder [guest]—even more to profit from the
Attorneys at Law a lease, the than the tenant is paying landlord’s investment or
tenant gets a deed! the landlord! to have people living in an
60 years apartment if the landlord
A tenant has the same There are several doesn’t know how the
The attorneys have right as a landlord does with companies that arrange occupants will behave
dedicated more than respect to the landlord’s these sublettings, including or if they have a criminal
60 years to various own home, except that the Airbnb, Home Away and record, or if they are over-
lease, like a deed, may have Vacation Rentals by Owners occupying it.
areas of law. restrictions/prohibitions in (VRBO), and an apartment
it (including the duration may be listed with those Even if you draft a
Newark of the “ownership” of an companies on the internet.
apartment.[1]) Unless the Those
They are located in lease prohibits it, a tenant companies
Newark, N.J. may conduct a business may arrange
in the apartment, may for “screening”
real make alterations, may their
estate have “boarders,” change customers,
the locks, deny access to but the
The firm’s real estate the landlord, and let the landlord will
background includes apartment deteriorate. be subject to
condo development, the standards
The key word in that and
contracts, leases, paragraph is “lease.” If procedures
land acquisition, the lease does not lease of those
new construction, prohibit those activities, the companies
landlord-tenant tenant may profit from the for
issues, and more. tenancy by subletting[2] screening.
the apartment – anywhere
contact from a day to a month (or A
longer)—at any payment landlord
(973) 643-0040 (“rent”) that the tenant can normally
epgp-law.com

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Directory Legal - Attorneys
Contact: Michael Byrnes
ACADIA WINDOWS & DOORS INC. Ten Penn Center, 1801 Market St, Suite 1700, Contact: Jenel R. Marraccini
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Family Industry Fax: (215) 564-3940 Fax: (215) 887-8732
[email protected] [email protected]
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Consulting Fax: 862-926-2422 New York, NY 10019
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installation to the multi-family industry Fax: 973-912-9050 Phone: 908-709-9777
[email protected] Fax: 908-709-2023
Contact: John Zoetjes www.bloomandbloom.com [email protected]
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Phone: 973-726-4920 BRINKERHOFF ENVIRONMENTAL COWLEYS TERMITE & PEST
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Pest Control 1913 Atlantic Ave., Ste. R5, 38 W. Sylvania Ave, Neptune City, NJ 07753
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Contact: Carmen Reino Phone: 732-223-2225 Fax: (732) 897-9577
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Contact: Brent Winig Carmel, IN 46032
Contact: Mario Ferraro P.O. Box 1239, West Chester, PA 19380 Phone: 317-848-5700
629 E. 19th Street, Paterson, NJ 07514 Phone: 610-692-5600 Fax: 317-815-6140
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www.arrowcompactor.com DIRECT SUPPLIES WAREHOUSE
CITY FIRE EQUIPMENT CO. INC. “MRO” Maintenance, Repair & Operation
BAY POINT ELECTRICAL Fire Alarms, Fire Extinguishers, Fire Product
CONTRACTORS Sprinklers
Electrical, Energy Consulting Contact: Sara Leffler
Contact: Paul McGrath 100 Hancock St., P.O. Box 742, Lodi, NJ 07644
Contacts: Jeff Blaney & Sean Calhoun P.O. Box 360, East Hanover, NJ 07936 Phone: (201) 983-3816
P.O. Box 2680, Port Monmouth, NJ 07758 Phone: 973-560-1600 Fax: (973) 472-7222
Phone: 732-787-2680 Fax: 973-781-1099 [email protected]
Fax 732-787-2681 [email protected] www.askdsw.com
[email protected] www.cityfire.com
EHRLICH, PETRIELLO, GUDIN &
CLICK NOTICES INC. PLAZA
Resident Delinquent Rent Court Filing Legal Services
Service Contact: Bruce Gudin

Contact: Mark Livanec 60 Park Place, Ste. 1016, Newark, NJ 07102
77 West Street #110, Annapolis, MD 21401 Phone: 973-643-0040
Phone: (443) 878-1500, (888) 491-1312 Fax: 973-596-1781
[email protected] [email protected]
www.clicknotices.com www.epgp-law.com

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USDA, RURAL DEVELOPMENT P.O. Box 43 | Riverton, NJ 08077
Direct Loans and Loan Guarantees to Buy, Phone: (856) 786-9590 | Fax: (856) 786-6265
Acquire and Rehab MultiFam. Apts. to Low
Income Families [email protected] | www.jahma.org

Contact: Karen Gagnon officers ADVISORY COMMITTEE
8000 Midlantic Dr., 5th Floor, Ste. 500
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 PRESIDENT James McGrath
Phone: 856-787-7740
Fax: 856-787-7737 Sandra Cipollone SHCM, NAHP-e
[email protected]
www.rurdev.usda.gov CPM, CPO, SHCM HUD/AGENCY LIAISON

WELLS FARGO INSURANCE SERVICES FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Francis Thomas
Insurance Broker Dean Santa
Anthony Cupano Robert Sasso
Contact: Megan Davidson
999 Third Ave, Suite 4100, Seattle, WA 98104 ARM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Phone: 206-731-1227
Fax: 206-731-1209 SECOND VICE PRESIDENT Chris Bauer
[email protected] Rosie Jackson
wfis.wellsfargo.com/mahip Dan Coughlin Mattie James

WESTERN PEST SERVICES SHCM, FHC, NAHP-e FOUNDATION PRESIDENT
Pest Control Services
TREASURER J. Kenneth Pagano
Contact: Ken Buerck
937 State Rd., Princeton, NJ 08540 Scott Schaffer NAHP-e, CPM, SHCM
Phone: 609-683-1444
Fax: 732-741-7329 ARM, SHCM, NAHP-e, FHC, CPO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
[email protected]
www.westernpest.com SECRETARY Jo Ann McKay

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Certified Public Accountants
BOARD MEMBERS Renee Reithel
Contact: Jim Mulroy, CPA
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Phone: 732-828-1614 [email protected]
Fax: 732-964-9360 NAHP-e, CPM, SHCM
[email protected]
www.withum.com David Schiro

YARDI SYSTEMS INC. NAHP-e, FHC
Property Management Software
Ad Rates
Contact: Amy Harrington
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