Rental Property in Harrisburg,PA

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Hi everyone.

I got my first property in Harrisburg, PA last year and I have been renting it by the room. I have someone who was helping me manage the properties. He also has his own properties in the area and he is also a handyman so he was also my maintenance guy. He has been so hard to deal with lately. For e.g He would take time to do repairs, collect the rent and take a very long time to transfer/send the money into my account upto 2weeks. I made a decision last weekend that I wanted to take over and do the management myself. I have met all the tenants in the house except for one lady because she just moved in last month. I would like to meet this new tenant and introduce myself, problem is I do not have the phone number of this new tenant and he is refusing (indirectly) to give me the tenants number until he talks to her first.

According to him the tenant does a live in job and he’s saying she’s not always home and he doesnt know when she will be home next. He says he had lied to the tenant that he owns the property and now he doesnt want to look stupid or look like a liar so he would like to tell the tenant in person and explain that he sold the house and the new owner will be taking over management of the house (something like that). He refuses to tell this to her over the phone.

When I ask him when that will happen he said he doesnt know when she will be off from work, when I ask for the tenant’s number he says he cannot give it to me until he talks to her first, which leaves me with a few options here.l. I do not have the phone nunber of this tenant and I am wondering what’s really going on here. Why cant he just tell her on the phone all this. We have been going back and forth about this for a few days now. All the tenants have paid rent for the month of July. Should I just leave it and wait until he gives me this new tenant’s number? I am not sure if there’s more to this. He sounded angry on the phone when we spoke today, he didnt say it but i know he is not happy about my decision to manage the properties.

I would like to change locks for the whole house but I cannot do this until I have been in touch with the new tenant so that she doesnt get any surprises coming to a house that has new locks. I live 75mins away from Harrisburg. Sorry to write a long story. I would appreciate everyone’s help on this issue. Thank you all in advance.