The Rent Well Tenant Education Program provides community members with all the information necessary to locate, secure, and maintain housing in today’s rental market. This class covers topics like fair housing, understanding your lease, navigating common barriers, exploring your background and credit report, and more.
This 15-hour state curriculum, presented by ACCESS, helps you build a robust rental portfolio and provides a certificate of completion, showing potential landlords that you are prepared, educated, and determined to be a successful renter. Coupled with sizeable financial protections for landlords to mitigate risks, graduates of this class make enticing candidates for tenancy.
WHO CAN ATTEND?
To be eligible for certification, participants need to have an income that is at or below 60% AMI and be experiencing at least one barrier to housing. Such barriers include, but are not limited to, poor or no credit or rental history, past legal troubles, having been a ward of the state, homelessness, or housing instability. The landlord incentive portion of this certificate must be used within 18 months of graduation, but the skills and knowledge last a lifetime.
HOW TO REGISTER:
Call 541-772-3301
or Email justinhon@sogoodwill.org
WHEN:
Classes begin the 1st week of every month.
2 Classes a week for 3 weeks.
MONDAY and WEDNESDAY.
Class size limited to 30 students.
Location: Southern Oregon Goodwill
11 W Jackson St.
Medford OR 97501
Cost: FREE!
Other Info and Specifics:
Your instructors and guest speakers from the Center for Non-profit Legal Services, Consumer
Credit Counseling, Allcities Property Management, Housing Authority of Jackson County,
Rogue Retreat, local banks and others will give you guidance on budgeting, credit repair,
realistic home searches, good neighbor/tenant skills and much more.
Rent Well graduates in Jackson County are eligible to access the Rent Guarantee Program. This
is an incentive for the landlords, which can possibly provide them with financial coverage
beyond the security deposit for damages, unpaid rent, or eviction costs that might happen if
the tenant leaves their unit within the first year of tenancy.
For more information about the Rent Well Tenant Education Program or for assistance, please contact us at (458)488-1458 or email lleprogram@accesshelps.org