Re: passing the buck to my property manager

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No offense intended, but it sounds like you want to squeeze
the tenant for the security deposit and vilify someone else
for it so that they get blamed. If I were you, I'd be as fair
as possible to the tenant, and withhold only what is
reasonable, and then if you don't feel like managing the unit
further just have the property manager handle it from here on out.
A few hundred dollars isn't worth a lawsuit, and when you
start being unfair to people you do business with, it has a
tendency to come back and bite you.
Best of luck, and consider having the manager just deal with
everything in the future if you don't want the headache.

On 7/07/09, J. the Queen wrote:
> I am a successful business woman and I know business. I
> invested in a condo but the value went way down now. I
> leased it out without wasting time maintaining it. At the
> end of the lease, I hired a property manager to charge the
> tenant whatever she could come up with: the carpet, the
> wall, or whatever. She is a professional with good ethics--
> she will fight for me until whatever, which is cool.
>
> The problem is, the tenant keeps saying my property manager
> is defective and refuses to deal with her. (If I hire a
> property manger with a Harvard MBA, the rent will go way up,
> hello?) The tenant says he will sue me instead of the
> property manager (for negligence in maintaining the condo,
> for charging him stuff he is not responsible for, etc.) The
> tenant has evidence to back claims and seems serious.
>
> My question is, how may I let my property manager keep the
> trouble? (I pay her, hello?)
>
> There must be some way, please help.

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