Retaliating Tenant - Landlord Forum thread 347686

Retaliating Tenant by Secret Manager (Oregon) on August 28, 2016 @05:29

In a nutshell, I'm a property manager who shares my building with a permanent supportive housing organization. I have an office, and I work for the property management company. The PSH has an office. The PSH agent dislikes me, wants my job, and gossips to the tenants about our issues, and she's creating an alliance with them against me. Her actions are rooted in jealousy. There is a resident in particular that is acting as this agent's "spy", or "keeper". Anytime she sees me having communication with another resident, or a visitor to the property, I'll find her standing behind a wall listening in, or she'll jump on her phone and immediately start texting (I'm sure the's telling the agent everything). She and her children and sister have started this new thing where they come in the office about 15 times a day to ask me questions just to bother me. they'll have smirks on their faces, they're argumentative, and they're rude to me all day long. I threw a resident party recently and the every time the balloon artist made her kids a balloon, they would slam it in the garbage right in front of my face. Showing me that they don't appreciate what I'm doing for them. I've asked all of them to stop coming in the office so much asking me for unnecessary things, and asking to use things like I'm supposed to loan things out to them. It's pretty obvious that the mother is coaching the children to do these things and I'm tired of them bothering me all day. During the party, whenever I would walk away from serving pizza, the son would open the pizza box and try to dig in with his hand, after I had already told me 3 times that I didn't need his assistance. He was also trying to "steal" a backpack when I was giving them out for free (I needed to keep tally for each household). When I walk away, you can hear the mother telling the sister to go see where I am, so the sister tries to hurry and follow me down the hallway, and when she sees me approaching back, she hurries and turns around and starts talking with her eyes....I think they were trying to take more backpacks, or take more pizza.
I feel like my hands are tied here. the agent already has my supervisors thinking that I'm a bad manager. I've had to prove my innocence to keep my job. If I then have an issue with a resident, It may cause me my job. any advice? the agent is turning a handful of residents against me...while others tell me privately what the agent is saying about me. Some of the residents have went as far as to call housing authority to tell him how much of a wonderful job im doing. I pride myself on being a very respectable manager. I treat all my tenants with respect. this agent is very caddy, gossipy, and she's fraternizing with the residents. She's starting fires at the property.

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Re: Retaliating Tenant by Anon on August 28, 2016 @06:00	[ Reply ]

Just a wall of words!

Re: Retaliating Tenant by Garry on August 28, 2016 @08:48	[ Reply ]

Unfortunately, no one can change someone else. Many things you have said here, are your "feelings", but lack actual proof. A PM job can be very stressful. I think it's time you started looking for another job. If you are as good as you say you are, you should have no problem quickly finding a new job in your field. Good Luck

Re: Retaliating Tenant by Magic Mike on August 29, 2016 @11:22	[ Reply ]

Is PSH a public program? Anyway, you'll need to document your allegation, including dates/times, and any evidence you have and send it the the HR dept or management of PHS to report her. They will look into it, and if you claim as any merit, they will likely transfer/reassign her.

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