I have seen him four times in eleven days and I have started logging the times and entry points separately because I noticed after the second occurrence that the route is not random. Random routes in a property management context would favor efficiency -- shortest paths between units, parking lot to door, door to parking lot. His route does not do that. He takes the long way every time. He walks the perimeter of the upper lot before he enters the building, even when he parks close to the entrance. That is a surveillance walk. I know what a surveillance walk looks like because I have read about them and because I have watched him enough times now to name it.

The clipboard is never written on while he is walking. He holds it with the board facing out, angled slightly toward whatever he is looking at. That is not how you hold a clipboard when you are taking notes. That is how you hold a clipboard when you want to appear to be taking notes while your attention is directed outward. There is a difference in posture and he has the wrong posture for actual note-taking, every time.

Maybe he really is a property manager. Could be. Worst one I have ever watched work if so, and I have watched enough of them at this point to have a baseline, or he is something else wearing that job because it lets a man stand in a parking lot for forty minutes without anyone asking why he is still there. I cant tell which from the walk alone. I have tried, I timed it against the guy who does the actual landscaping route on that property and the difference is obvious once you know what you are looking at. The documentation continues because I dont have anything better to do with what I am seeing than write it down. Somebody has to.