Employee at a large property management company sees through his shady manager's demands, gives them a pile of paperwork and quits two weeks later: ‘[The] defeated looks on their faces!’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jul 21, 2025 6:00 PM EDT

The real estate market is always so crazy. The ups and downs are always all over the place. So many people, these days, tend to rent. These guys are called tenants and they have a landlord they have to pay every month. Usually the landlord is the homeowner. And sometimes these landlords can be greedy and lazy—they want the most passive income they can get with the least amount of effort put in. So they hire a property management company that takes care of their homes for them! Sometimes this can be great news and you get a very helpful management company. Sometimes, you get a shady one that is just as greedy and lazy as the landlord. This is when rent skyrockets for houses that feel like they're already one foot in the grave. 

Usually, when you get a bad management company, that means there is something shady going on within its own ranks. Take this employee, for example—he worked at a property management company and immediately was able to sniff out that his higher ups weren't doing the right thing. 

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  • So what did he do? He did exactly what he asked him to do, but 10x more. So now, when they were expecting to have a “gotcha” moment and be able to fire him, they instead gave them selves a pile of more work to do. Two weeks after dishing out that epic malicious comply, the employee left for a better position in the company and then a few weeks after that, they got caught doing fraud. Ahhh, karma can be grand sometimes! 

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  • "Written account of everything."

    I worked for a large property management company many years ago. The property manager was a terrible person. He was cruel to residents (low income housing) and "ruled" through fear and intimidation. He'd get in his employees faces,
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  • swear at them and generally try to get people to quit so he could fill positions with friends/minions. He was doing everything in his power to get me to quit. I hated going to work every day. But, this was during the recession.
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  • I had a baby at home, so quitting was not an option. At one point, he told me I had to keep a detailed log of everything I did, all day long, broken down every 15 minutes. I knew he
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  • didn't think I would do this. I also knew he'd likely wait months before asking for the documentation. I also knew that he assumed that he could fire me for insubordination if it was not done to his specifications.
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  • I was correct, he waited about 3 months and randomly asked me for the documentation. I told him to give me a minute and I'd print it out.
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  • When I returned with the full log, he and the assistant manager, (who was in cahoots with him), just stared at it with dumbfounded and defeated looks on their faces.
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  • A couple of weeks later, I left that property and moved to another job within the company. A few months after that, he and the assistant manager got caught for fraud and stealing money.
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  • Imaginary-Yak-6487 I'm a pm for a low income apartment complex. I've been doing this for 19 years. I've never understood that type of managers mentality. I did have a person I was training to be my assistant manager & they had an attitude like this, looking down on residents. I told her that you don't
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  • know their story & why they're here. She says I could never live like this, I care too much about myself & family & don't take handouts. Hmm. I said that's all fine & good, until something bad happens & you find yourself needing housing.
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  • I told her I've been there twice in my life. It helped me get back on my feet after a divorce & after I lost my job & that's how I got into this industry. Like I said, you don't know someone else's story. After that, she had her nose stuck up in the air & wasn't listening to me. I
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  • told her, that she would not make it in this industry with that s ka attitude & thinking/acting like she was better than every one else. Go work for some snobby place coz this ain't it.
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  • 2ez2b4ortun8 I have met 1 property manager I would trust with my rentals. She was above board with tenants and owners. She had no hesitation about firing clients who wouldn't keep up with maintaining the property. Her husband was a scumbag. They had separate clients. I have talked to a
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  • couple more companies but wish I could find one like her. It usually takes about 2 years before a tenant realizes I want to know as soon as there is a problem. A bad manager destroys that in a year. Bad for tenants and for the property.
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