Tenant information

[Kassandra RPM Alaska]

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New Member · January 1 at 6:22 PM

Looking for advice....I have been using a property manager for the last year and a half, however I just terminated my contract with them because they’ve been nothing but a nightmare from day 1 😕. I’m going to take over managing my rental house myself and wanted to contact my Tenant to let them know what’s going on.

The official terminating date for the property managers is the middle of this month but my property managers refuse to give me my tenants phone number or email address and told me it was illegal for them to give me any information about my tenants. Can anyone tell me if that is true? It doesn’t sound true to me and my property managers have bean known to lie. I looked through my contract with them and the AK landlord tenant laws and couldn’t find anything that said it was illegal for a property manager to give the owner of a property the tenants information.

The only thing I know about my tenant is their name and of course address. I know the property managers have not told my tenant about them being fired and I don’t want my tenant to be blindsided by this change, so I sent a letter to them letting them know what’s happening. Is there anything else I can do?

[Greg VT]

Hmm...interesting.

 

If it was something I'd be dealing with, and the management company was local to me (or even, come to think of it, in another state), I'd be making a very personal visit to their office for a very personal discussion on this. 

More than likely that would be followed up with a certified letter explaining some things to them, possibly followed up by an interesting letter from my lawyer.

I suppose there is a possibility that your tenant has signed some paperwork with the management company, and within that paperwork is some clause that they will not disclose personal information to anyone. 

In any case, main thing is you need to notify the management company of the termination of your relationship with them. If they're a shady operation, do it in writing and in some kind of legal notification - like a certified letter. If it's a serious issue with them, have your lawyer send them a letter terminating your business relationship.

 

Then again, I haven't had enough coffee this morning, I'm not a legal expert, and my opinions are worth what you paid for them, LOL.

Good luck with this, I'd be interested in hearing the outcome. Not to mention who the management company is.

[Kassandra RPM Alaska]

@Greg VT  I also need coffee before I say to much 

[Kassandra RPM Alaska]

 

@Victor Peluso Says

Just go in person and visit and introduce yourself to make sure they know who the rent check goes to. If you're former property managers are shady they might try continuing to collect the rent.