Article: Proven approaches exist for discouraging payoffs. (advice for for property owners and managers to curb practice of building contractor payoffs to property managers to obtain favor) (Insider Outlook) (Column)

Owners and executive-level managers must recognize, with conviction, that proven approaches exist for discouraging the practice of payoffs to property managers by contractors.

Company culture, education and a "checks and balances" system of procedures can all be employed effectively in fighting payoffs.

Peter Loughran, CPM, a well-respected mentor to myself and many others in this business, served to demonstrate this premise.

Peter, as director of the management department of a large real estate company, spoke at department meetings of his enmity for "taking" and those who took. He would reiterate his policy that contractors who "offered" would ...

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