TAX CREDIT 101 | STUDENTS
Students | A short rule with a lot riding on the facts.
December 15, 2026 | 1:00–4:00 PM Central
Student eligibility can look simple until household composition changes, student status changes, or an exception has to be documented.
Includes the Students Activation Guide. Use it during the live course, then take it back to your files as a working reference.
Live three-hour webinar · $295
Add Students to Cart — $295One student fact can change the eligibility answer.
The rules are short on paper and complicated in real files. Students 101 works through the LIHTC and tax-exempt bond rule, its exceptions, documentation, and what changes when HUD, HOME, or RD rules also apply.
The goal: identify the right student rule, test the exceptions, apply each program separately, and document why the eligibility answer is supportable.
You’ll work through
- The five-month full-time student rule—even after school attendance has ended
- The five LIHTC/bond exceptions and how to document them
- Marriage, single-parent, former-foster, welfare, and job-training exceptions
- State-policy gray areas and the need for a consistent approach
- How student rules differ across LIHTC/bond, HUD, HOME, and RD programs
- Why multiple program rules must be applied separately rather than reduced to a single “most restrictive” rule
More than a lecture.
Your registration includes the Students Activation Guide—built 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 examples that reflect actual compliance decisions.
Ask the Hard Questions
Bring the student scenarios where one changed fact may change the eligibility result.
Take the Guide Back to Work
Decision flowcharts, examples, knowledge checks, documentation prompts, and action items stay together so you can revisit the analysis later.
ALSO AVAILABLE
Want the whole Tax Credit 101 framework?
If Students is the immediate need, Students 101 stands on its own. If you want the connected four-part framework, the Complete Series is the better value.
Complete Series — $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 — $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 student-rule 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 “101” mean?
Does the individual live registration include the replay?
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Students 101
December 15, 2026 | 1:00–4:00 PM Central | $295
Build the framework. Bring the difficult questions. Leave with a process you can use.
Add Students to Cart — $295
