About the Course
The 7-hour Certified Waterfront Specialist course will cover many of the aspects, legalities, pitfalls, and advantages of working with waterfront property.
What You'll Learn
- Different types of waterfront properties.
- Knowledge of bridge heights, tides, and water depths.
- Docks and seawalls: What you can do, can’t do, need to look into, permitting process, ability to rebuild, etc.
- Riparian Rights and Water Use Rights: As an upland owner, what do you have the right to do? What does an upland owner mean?
- Waterfront and Bathymetric Surveys: What you need included on your survey request (riparian lines, dune system, mean high water line, water depths, the existence of seagrasses, etc.)
- Coastal Construction/Remodels and Variances: Adding on to existing waterfront property, tearing down and building from scratch, and building on vacant land.
- Environmental Considerations
- FARBAR Contract considerations for buyers and sellers (due diligence periods, disclosures, CCCL disclosure, etc.)
- 50% Rule: We’d bring in an appraiser to get into the nitty-gritty of these appraisals and how the process works.
- Flood Insurance: What’s covered, what’s not. How much coverage should one have?
- FEMA Letter of Map Revision and FEMA Letters of Map Amendments: When does a property meet the criteria to apply for flood map revision and potentially bring the structure out of a flood zone or have it reduced?
- Different types of waterfront properties.
- Knowledge of bridge heights, tides, and water depths.
- Docks and seawalls: What you can do, can’t do, need to look into, permitting process, ability to rebuild, etc.
- Riparian Rights and Water Use Rights: As an upland owner, what do you have the right to do? What does an upland owner mean?
- Waterfront and Bathymetric Surveys: What you need included on your survey request (riparian lines, dune system, mean high water line, water depths, the existence of seagrasses, etc.)
- Coastal Construction/Remodels and Variances: Adding on to existing waterfront property, tearing down and building from scratch, and building on vacant land.
- Environmental Considerations
- FARBAR Contract considerations for buyers and sellers (due diligence periods, disclosures, CCCL disclosure, etc.)
- 50% Rule: We’d bring in an appraiser to get into the nitty-gritty of these appraisals and how the process works.
- Flood Insurance: What’s covered, what’s not. How much coverage should one have?
- FEMA Letter of Map Revision and FEMA Letters of Map Amendments: When does a property meet the criteria to apply for flood map revision and potentially bring the structure out of a flood zone or have it reduced?
