OTA to Host Its First Annual Tenant Summit - Releases

(Washington, DC) - The Office of the Tenant Advocate will hold its 1^st Annual Tenant/Tenant Association Summit on the campus of Gallaudet University on Saturday, September 27, 2008 in the Kellogg Conference Center located at 800 Florida Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. The registration will begin at 8 am and the event will conclude at 4 pm.

Admission is free! There will be refreshments in the morning with free food provided at lunch. The summit speaking events will have multi-lingual translation simul-cast available. There will be the opportunity to sign-up for utility discount programs, sponsored exhibits, free giveaways and much more.

The Kellogg Conference Center will provide free shuttle bus service from Union Station and the New York Avenue, NE. Metro Station. Here is the schedule*.

Free Kellogg Conference Center parking passes are available to those who register online.

The summit will bring together tenants, tenant associations, community leaders, city officials and non-profit organizations who will share the knowledge, resources and information that Washington, DC residents need to meet the demanding issues that challenge them in today’s rental housing market.

This is an exciting opportunity to learn the facts about your rights and issues at the summit‘s multi-lingual ‘Boot Camp”; a series of seminars by advocacy professionals on important issues such as:

Rent Control
Foreclosure
Buying Your Building
Condo Conversion
Landlord and Tenant Court and much more

The Office of Tenant Advocate is one of the few if not the only independent government agency in the United States that is solely dedicated to protecting the rights of the tenant in rental properties in the District of Columbia. We are aggressively moving forward with a unique event that is geared towards providing tenants and tenant’s associations with the support they most desperately need to maintain their day to day quality of life needs.

Please join us for this interactive, educational full-day event. Come and meet your DC Office of Tenant Advocate staff and learn about the vital issues that affect you, your family or your tenant association.

You can download the registration form here* at ota.dc.gov. Fill out the form and fax it to us. Our fax number is (202) 442-9445. If you cannot fax the form then call our office and we will register you over the phone. Please feel free to contact us at our office at (202) 478-9275. We encourage you to register early. If either one is not possible or inconvenient, you can just arrive at the summit and register at the door. We look forward to seeing you there! If are interested in reserving an exhibition table for you or your organization at the summit the fee is $75.00.

Exhibitors registration form*.

We encourage you to register early. We look forward to seeing you there!