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I’ve got a good one (or, in retrospect, a truly awful one) here:At one of the communities my company owns there is a clubhouse that is rarely, if ever used. A small church inquired verbally to the on-site property manager if the clubhouse could be used on Sunday morning for hour-long services. When the property manager relayed the request to me, I told her that the church could have the space (for free; consider it a donation) as long as they cleaned it up afterwards and there were no space timing conflicts with residents of the property.Google ImagesWell, my scheming property manager tells the church pastor that the space was theirs for $100 per hour, payable in cash to her office. Perhaps the church pastor was a tad too trusting and naive, but this went on for approximately a year, to the tune of about $100 -$200/week.Flash forward to a year later, and this same property manager has been just fired by yours truly for employing family members in certain low level functions, and reporting neither their numerous absences or the family relationship as problems developed from there. The day she was fired, she tells the church pastor that the church’s rental agreement has been immediately terminated (by me, naturally) and not to show up on Sunday for services.Of course, later that week I received a phone call from my new property manager, informing me that a church pastor was sitting in her office wanting to know why his “rental agreement” on the clubhouse had been terminated, and if there was anything that could be done to get me to change my mind. It was quite an interesting meeting the pastor and I had together the next day!Now I’m not a religious person and I don’t know if heaven or hell really exist, but if hell does — stealing from a small church (and from your employer, as you have stolen a donation) … then trying to immediately evict the church once your theft will be discovered, even though you’ve already lost your job … well, you’ve just earned your ticket.

This would be called “violation of the lease”. You agreed to the landlord’s requirement that there be no smoking in the apartment, and you then violated that agreement.We had a property manager who had severe asthma and prohibited smoking and pets in our apartments. No argument from us on his requirements, and since the tenant had agreed to that term by signing the lease, the tenant had no argument that it was unfair.Keeping the security deposit? Yes, that’s a logical and reasonable action. The eviction of a tenant for cause cost at least one month’s rent in order to find a replacement tenant.There are consequences for violating a lease.

A careful review of the contract with your management company would be necessary to answer this question.However it does not matter. No owner is "married" to any property management company. If you don't like them or trust them, or if their performance is unsatisfactory, then terminate the contract and dismiss them.If there is a termination fee or penalty then just pay it, since no property owner should ever feel like they are "locked in" to a contract with a management company that performs poorly or does not provide the quaity of services desired.