Peter Lohmann argues that vendor payments from property managers are kickbacks and unethical. Speaker B counters that guilt makes people obsess over the issue. Lohmann uses a story about his 3-year-old denying eating anything to show how people rationalize uncomfortable truths.
payments in any form or fashion to vendors or from vendors to you as the manager are kickbacks and are not something we should be doing as property managers. What are your thoughts initially on that?
I'm gonna go to like a little niche thought right out of the gates. Sometimes we give things too much attention because we feel overly guilty about it, so we focus too much of a spotlight and a lens on it.
It's like when my 3-year-old comes in from the other room and says, I didn't eat anything.
Yes! Nothing to see here. I'm not doing anything dishonest, illegal, or unethical here, just so you know. But just in case you're wondering, here's exactly what I am doing, but there's nothing wrong with it. And I need you to initial this right here.
