Practice Area
Property Management Expert Witness in Tennessee
A case about how a manager ran the asset — the trust account, the vendors, the lease enforcement, the habitability complaint — needs someone who has actually managed property, not just litigated about it. I give those opinions, including on the line between managing property and practicing brokerage without a license.
This page covers a focused service. For the broader editorial practice area, see Expert Witness in Tennessee.
What a competent manager would have done
The opinion explains what a competent Tennessee manager would have done on the asset in dispute, drawing on TREC management-broker rules, trust-accounting requirements, owner-agreement custom, and the operating reality of running residential or commercial portfolios. The recurring categories are owner-versus-manager disputes, manager-versus-tenant claims, trust-accounting and escrow problems, vendor-selection and oversight failures, habitability disputes, and supervision questions for affiliates under a managing broker.
Where these come from
Retentions come from owner counsel pursuing or defending a claim against a manager, from manager-side defense counsel and E&O carriers, and from tenant or landlord counsel when the management company's conduct is the issue. I work from the management agreement, the owner statements, and the key correspondence, scope on a short call, and deliver the report, deposition, and testimony as the matter requires.
Qualifications
Hands-on property-management experience including oversight of multi-million-square-foot office portfolios. Tennessee licensed real estate broker since 2012; managing broker since 2021. TREC course instructor license since 2020. Tennessee bar since 2018.
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