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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)
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- Real Estate Weekly
- Article date:
- April 20, 1994
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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 ...