Are owners entitled to tenet information?

[PaulMass]

It's amazing the lengths some "senior members" will go to rather than admit they are wrong.

 

[LeeHarveyBlotto]

You could prove yourself right and everyone else wrong by citing the law that backs your assertion. You wont, as a) you wouldn't have the slightest idea how to do so, and b) it doesn't exist.

 

[quincy]

It's amazing the lengths some "senior members" will go to rather than admit they are wrong.

Hmm. I can see a non-senior member going to great lengths to avoid admitting he's wrong. The senior members LdiJ, CSO286 and LeeHarveyBlotto are correct.

Here is a link to the National Association of Residential Property Managers, Code and Standards: http://www.narpm.org/code-of-ethics-htm/

Under Standards of Professionalism:

Article 1, Responsibility to Protect the Public, Section 1-4: The Property Manager shall not knowingly, during or following their professional relationship with their clients or their tenants, reveal confidential information of the clients or tenants. The Property Manager must take all precautions in keeping information in regard to owners and tenants reasonably secured to prevent identity theft.

Article 3, Responsibility to Client, Section 3-1: The Property Manager shall use written agreements ... outlining all responsibilities and fees. The Client will be provided a copy of the signed agreement ...

Article 8, Commitment to Firm, Section 8-3: The Property Manager may not take or use any proprietary documentation, or client/tenant lists, during or after relationship with Employer/Broker without express written consent from Employer/Broker.

It is important to note that the client is not the employer/broker. A property manager is not the employee of the owner of the property. A property manager is generally employed by a property management company, whose job is to make money for the owners of properties by ensuring their rental units are filled and the rents are paid, while keeping the owners' property in good condition. The client/tenant list is compiled by, and is the property of, the property management company (unless there is written consent from the Employer/Broker for another to take or use it).

The written agreement between the property manager/property management company and the client/owner of the property is what governs their relationship.

 

[CSO286]

It's amazing the lengths some "senior members" will go to rather than admit they are wrong.

Prove me wrong. I will apologize. Until then, maybe you should back away from your keyboard.

 

[LdiJ]

It's amazing the lengths some "senior members" will go to rather than admit they are wrong.

Paul, I belong to a national association of professionals for my industry. While our national association has similar standards, once again, the fact that a national association has standards does not make those standards actual law. This is where you are making a fool of yourself. Not only did you quote the standards of a national association (which by the way, no national associations have any link to government) as if they were law, but then you got snippy when you were corrected.

And you are still getting snippy. If you want to look foolish, that is your business, but it might behoove you to make certain what you are citing is relevant, before you cite it.