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I'm in property management, specifically maintenance (I know landlords bad but I don't own the property; just my job). I got a letter from the city informing me of a violation because they couldn't inspect a vacant apartment. See, they scheduled a property wide inspection for the whole property awhile ago and they couldn't get into this apartment. Two weeks later I get this letter that we're in "violation" and don't rent the apartment until they can inspect. Well, the paperwork arrived late (their fault) and the apartment is already re-rented. So we could potentially be fined because that makes so much sense. Sorry for the longish backstory. I'm now going to send the inspector, and everyone in the department including the director, an email whenever we get a vacancy at any of our properties. Probably I can make a program to automate this. We manage 70 complexes, 2000 apartments. Enjoy the emails.

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[-] onionbaggage@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago

Hmm yes. Annoy the people who have oversight of you and can fine you. Seems like a brilliant idea.

[-] flyingjake@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago

Well, that is the point of malicious compliance isn't it? So long as op's giving them what they asked for, right?

[-] Morcyphr@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

To be fair, I'm not giving them what they asked for. I'm giving them what they didn't asked for to avoid future violations. Potaetoe potahto

[-] teuast@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

More like giving them what they implied you should have given them.

[-] Morcyphr@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Morcyphr@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

It's out of their scope of authority. They follow an established rental property maintenance code which does not specify a vacant unit is a violation, in and of itself.

[-] dystop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This isn't a long post at all, there are much longer ones :)

[-] kucuva@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Wont' the spam filter catch it though?

[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

You work for the devil, how does it feel?

this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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