Posted on 08/18/2023 6:22:56 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear
They paid the rent on time and according to their contract.
They DO NOT owe it again.
The guy who stole the money is responsible, but there is a share in the responsibility with the landlord who hired out this organization and should have investigated sooner when rents were not being paid.
Did the residents screen, interview, background check and hire the property manager?
No? Seems like they aren’t the ones with bad judgment
Apparent agency. End of story.
The money orders were given to her blank
why?
Found ‘em:
https://member.jacksontn.com/list/member/volunteer-management-development-co-inc-jackson-3463
"The money orders were given to her blank
why?"
The property management company was the agent of the owners, not of the tenants.
“The principle is responsible for the acts of the agent.”
The company lawyers must know this idea. They are trying to intimdate the tenants.
Somebody needs to take this on pro bono.
The company tried to say that but when they got the copies they were made out to “Holly Tree Apartments” and the thief just wrote her name over that. Apparently the bank didn't notice.
Lots of people not doing their job in this story.
They weren’t blank. If you read the article, the tenants had the name of the apartment complex on the money orders, and the property manager wrote over it.
“this is the way Corporate and our lawyers want to handle this.”
LOL
This is why I pay my rent online.
CC
We managed properties for small landlords for almost a decade. I thought I had seen and heard it all but this one takes the cake.
If a money order for rent was given to the post office clerk, does that person have to legally pay rent again if it was stolen from the landlord’s mailbox?
The tenants are correct: once they deposit their payment in the rent slot, the liability falls on the apartment owner to collect from the property management company.
-PJ
Nope, the residents need to hire a lawyer fast, the manament company is sandbaging them
This is a little more iffy because it was not given to the property agent or placed in a designated location.
You relied on the USPS. What were you thinking?
But if that is what they TOLD you to do then they assume the risk.
If stolen, their problem.
Which was why when we were doing it there were certain places that we would go collect in person and give them a receipt.
If we got robbed leaving the building that was not the tenant's problem. It was ours.
No, we never got robbed.
There was a legend that Jesse and Frank James once stayed the night at the house of an elderly woman under assumed names. They learned the bank was gonna foreclose on her property the next day. In the morning before they left they left a note for the women along with the payment for the property in full. In the note they told the woman to demand a receipt from the banker that the mortgage was paid in full. When he left her property the James Brothers robbed him and took their money back.
“this was not your fault, but this is the way Corporate and our lawyers want to handle this”
Oh, it is quite apparent it is “the way Corporate and our lawyers want to handle” it.
And now I’m sure the renters would like to invite “Corporate and (their) lawyers” to step back through the enormous doors of reality.
Or perhaps “Corporate and (their) lawyers” would prefer a note stapled to the front door of the now former renter relating a sentiment along the lines of “outta here AND I will tell everyone just how stupid you are.”
They COULD just try to recover the money from >>>their<<< thief and next month the usual stack of rent checks would be back.
Apparently “Corporate and (their) lawyers” are displaying extremely typical prog behaviour in not being able to see past their current first move.
Oh well...
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