Funny things Property managers say from the vendor side.

Funny things Property managers say from the vendor side.
- Can you include my house in the cleaning price of the property?
- Can you raise the estimate you sent? My budget for it is higher and you can give me the difference in cash for me.
- Sorry bruh. You aren’t going to get into this property. The PM gets a kick back from the painting company we are using.
- Can we use the paint that we use at the property to paint my house?
- Can you guys send the pretty girl that came yesterday to clean again?
- I live on site and if you are going to clean the common areas my apartment is included.
- Overheard this in a leasing office “put them in the back with the other hispanics”
- We gotta stop using you. We are gonna use my cousin business instead.
- Corporate cut the check yesterday.
- 60 days later of service. What is this late fee for?

Sad, but true. I've worked for a few of these.

I agree with the finder fee aka kickback I own a construction company and am more than happy to pay for the lead!

Jessica Lynn Peacock ya nothing wrong with paying for the lead. The problem comes when the payment doesn’t end up going to the owner of the property. If it ends up going to someone else then that is a fraud or a bribe.

Miles Scruggs agree

If I say corporate cut the check yesterday or even today, please believe me I always low key get paranoid I won’t be believed.

Doesn’t even surprise me. What a shame. I have seen so much shady and fraudulent stuff from employees over the years

We used to have a cleaning company with the same ownership as the property management and it was disclosed to owners. As soon as we could find another cleaning company that produced better better value then we fired ourselves and shut down the cleaning company. Property management has to always keep the best interest of the owners first.

Wait…. WHAT!!!! I am a PM…. I cannot imagine putting myself in ANY of these situations

I have on many occasion contacted corporate about payments and have seen checks were cut 1-3 days prior to the inquiry. That actually happens.

Those are called criminals, not Property Managers!!!!

Eric Rivera I second that. Our integrity is not negotiable.

None of that seems worth losing my job over.

This shouldn't shock me...

Well this is just terrifying there are managers like this....

Cynthia Buchanan big names in that list. My opinion is that it comes from the actual person being shady. At times the management has no control over until those shady employees get caught

None of the "old school" PMs would be this negligent.

Amy Gruver you would be surprised. A “senior PM” was the one that wanted her apartment included. very sad.

Wait are we not supposed to be doing this?!?! JK, I’ve worked with PM’s who have done things like this. There’s a VERY ugly underbelly to this business. Not everyone has ethics or morals. It’s a sad truth of the industry.

I've seen this stuff repeatedly over the past 20 years. From site level all the way up to the top. I feel like it's probably the same in any industry. People will try to get away with everything if they can.

While there are some great folks in our industry, there are also those without integrity and ethics.

I haven’t personally experienced that with PMs, but definitely in the past have had a couple of RMs that gave contracts based on personal favors and kickbacks. They assumed they were fooling everybody but everyone knew.

#no

I'm sorry you guys have gone through that!

Agree this is horrible. But…..there are also vendors out there that perpetuate this. Big vendors in our industry. I signed two very lucrative contracts with a marketing company a few years back. Once the contracts were signed, I got a call from the account manager offering to buy me a Louis Vuitton. I thanked her for the offer but declined and asked her to buy my teams lunch. It goes both ways.

I worked for a developer/owner that I’m pretty sure the President and construction superintendent had their houses built by authorizing ridiculous bids for the apartment construction that happened to coincide with their new houses.

Should say Things Property Managers say to get fired!

Well this is just terrifying there are managers like this.

But I bet none of these managers have ever been reported to HR for their fraud and lack of integrity.

Rikita Mohamed we reported the maintenance person that asked for the pretty team member. As well as the person wanting the cash back.

Wow. That's awful!

Nothing funny about this . Report these managers

Well, I have heard it all as well. Unfortunately, this happens in every industry. The world is comprised of many different humans: some have great integrity and some have little to no integrity. Hopefully, the ones will integrity don't get bamboozled by the fakes.

I can't even! I would never imagine doing those things and when I say a check is cut it's been printed and in the mail.

Unethical business practices have no place in this or any industry. It is a travesty when it happens. I am proud of the fact that in Texas such behavior is still considered unacceptable and is not as common as it is in many other parts of the world or even certain places in America. Corruption has a cost that owners and investors ultimately have to bear and which ends up adding costs for everyone. As a business owner and investor, if someone I am paying ever does such things I want to know about it so I can immediately stop paying them. Vendors have to be accountable too. If they all said "no" to unethical requests, there wouldn't be as many. If you do get propositioned, let owner of the company know. If they are the offender or don't care, consider not doing business with them, or at least let them know what they are paying for the privilege.

In my experience working in the security space there are definitely some PMs suspected of getting kick backs when they have a massive courtesy patrol budget that clearly isn't working and transients are crawling all over the place, repeat car break-ins, loitering, poor online reviews relating to security .... and they won't even consider a proposal from a lower cost remote guarding service that performs better and costs less with video evidence to prove it's effectiveness. haha