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.

I am not saying he is not a property manager. I am saying he is either a very bad one or he is something else using a property manager's cover, and I cannot determine which from observation alone. The documentation continues because documentation is the only tool I have that cannot be taken from me without my noticing.