Topic: Legal Hot Topics for 2011
This Program will update Owners and Managers on some of the most important developments in the self storage industry over the past year. Every Operator should know about the legislative changes made around the country to modernize self storage lien laws, the shift in technology and law to allow lease agreements to be executed electronically, current case decisions affecting the limits of liability for self storage facilities and how to properly dispose of abandoned records found in tenant’s units.
These are just a few of the topics to be discussed. Others include:
1. Lien sale issues under South Carolina law
2. Using e-mail in your operations legally
3. Strategies for collecting payments from your tenants and avoiding sales.
4. Avoiding the wrongful sale claim.
Don’t miss this opportunity to get updated on the legalities affecting your business.
SPEAKER: Scott Zucker, Esq.
Scott Zucker is a partner in the Atlanta law firm of Weissmann Zucker Euster Morochnik P.C. where he specializes in real estate and business litigation. Scott represents self storage owners and managers throughout the country on legal matters including property development, facility construction, lease preparation, employment policies and tenant claims defense. He also provides, on a consulting basis, advice to self storage companies in the areas of foreclosure and lien sales, premises liability and loss control safeguards.
Mr. Zucker obtained his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and his law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Scott is legal counsel to a number of State self storage associations, a frequent lecturer at national self storage conventions and is a contributing legal writer for trade magazines such as the Mini- Storage Messenger and Inside Self Storage. Scott is the author of Legal Topics in Self Storage: A Sourcebook for Owners and Managers. He is also a partner in the Self Storage Legal Network, a subscription based legal services for self storage owners and managers.