All Forum Posts by: Joseph Reitman

I see you are a licensed real estate agent and property manager. Have you taken a Real Estate Law class? I would suggest understanding the legal relationship between a Principle and a agent. As my attorney explained in an analogy, "if you are an architect, and work for an architectural firm, the blueprints the employee creates are the property of the client and/or the architectural firm. Same holds true here: as your employee your agent gathered information from your tenants to help you create and enforce tenancies - not for her personal use and enjoyment."

After consulting with an attorney it turns out the property manager is required to return those documents and it would be illegal for her to keep them after I terminated her employment. 

I've terminated a management agreement with a property manager. The property manager is refusing to give me the applications she collected from tenants. The problem is she rented to people without doing background checks and I'm now stuck with deadbeat's who I have to take to court. The information I need to carry out evictions and lawsuits are on the applications. My question is who owns those applications? 

There are landlords in my area that provide AC units to the tenant. I currently do not. But if I have thought about doing it at an additional cost to the tenant. A $50 a month increase could recover the cost of one or two AC's within a year.