TAX CREDIT 101 | RENTS & UTILITY ALLOWANCES
Rents & Utility Allowances | Maximum rent is only the starting point.
January 25, 2027 | 1:00β4:00 PM Central Time
Getting the rent right means connecting the rent limit to the actual charges and the correct utility allowance.
Includes the Rents & Utility Allowances Activation Guide. Use it during the live course, then take it back to your files as a working reference.
Live three-hour webinar Β· $295
Add Rents & Utility Allowances to Cart β $295The wrong starting limit can make every calculation after it wrong.
Rents & Utility Allowances 101 follows the compliance chain from selecting the correct MTSP income limit to the rent actually chargedβand then adds the utility allowance rules that can change that answer.
The goal: start with the correct limit, calculate the compliant rent, apply the right utility allowance, and implement changes on time.
Youβll work through
- Minimum set-asides, Average Income designations, and the correct MTSP limits
- Holding harmless, HERA Special, and rural national non-metropolitan limits
- Gross rent limits, gross rent floors, and bedroom-size calculations
- Rental assistance, tenant rent, fees, and lease-rent accuracy
- Utility allowance hierarchy, methods, and building-level rules
- Annual UA analysis, implementation timing, and HUD/RD/HOME interactions
More than a lecture.
Your registration includes the Rents & Utility Allowances Activation Guideβbuilt to be used during the course and kept as a working reference afterward.
Work the Rule
Move from the governing source to program-specific application with calculations and examples that reflect actual compliance decisions.
Ask the Hard Questions
Bring the rent and utility-allowance situations where limits, charges, and timing collide.
Take the Guide Back to Work
Calculation work, timing rules, examples, knowledge checks, documentation prompts, and action items stay together as you work.
ALSO AVAILABLE
Want the whole Tax Credit 101 framework?
If Rents & Utility Allowances is the immediate need, this course stands on its own. If you want the connected four-part framework, the Complete Series is the better value.
Complete Series β $885. Buy three. Get the fourth included. Save $295.
Get Income, Assets, Students, and Rents & Utility Allowances live, plus every replay, four Activation Guides, and access through 30 days after the final live webinar.
The same five-step method runs through all four: Reference, Research, Application, Document, Act.
Every dollar paid for Tax Credit 101 individual sessions counts toward the $885 Complete Series price.
Explore the Complete Series β $885The fundamentals, not the basics.
COURSE DESIGNED AND TAUGHT BY
Scott Michael Dunn
CEO, Costello Compliance
National affordable housing compliance trainer and consultant.
Who should attend?
Site and compliance staff, regional managers, owners and agents, agency and monitoring staff, investors, and others who need solid LIHTC rent and utility-allowance fundamentals they can actually use.
Rules matter. Application matters more.
Costello University training is built around practical compliance decisions, not just rule recitation. The goal is a framework you can use when the file in front of you does not look like the example in the manual.
Questions before you register?
What does β101β mean?
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When is the Rents & Utility Allowances session?
Rents & Utility Allowances 101
January 25, 2027 | 1:00β4:00 PM Central Time | $295
Build the framework. Bring the difficult questions. Leave with a process you can use.
Add Rents & Utility Allowances to Cart β $295
