New landlord(s) seems a bit sketchy [NC]
So I’m not sure of this is a normal thing that goes on but it seems a little sketchy. Today (10-1-26) our apartment building has new landlords. We received a paper under the door for the new information as far as paying rent and who to contact for maintenance and other questions.
The first thing that seemed odd was the contact information. For any questions about rent, maintenance, or other property matters we have to email someone. There is no other form of contact like a phone number. I thought it was a bit weird as there is no phone number in case of emergencies or stuff of the sort where we would need to call. But all we have is email.
The second weird thing is the way to pay rent. The only thing listed as far as directions is the name to write who to pay for on a check with a mailing address and an accounting and routing number to Wells Fargo. I don’t fully understand why they listed an acct and routing number as there is no portal or website to go to, to send money to. Anytime I have had to use any information for routing, it’s usually through a company own website or portal that is already set up to enter my details. It seemed a bit odd to just have this information but no where to enter details to send.
Then the mailing address for sending checks. Since the other details seems odd to me I was a bit weary about where money was being sent to so I looked up the address. When looking on Google Maps it pulls up an apartment in another city about an hour away to send any mail to. I didn’t think much of it because I know some places are privately owned and have mail going to there private residence, but it just seemed odd to me that our owner who just purchased an apartment building for near a million dollars would be living in an apartment elsewhere.
I ended up looking who the owner of the apartment was through the Geographic Information System (GIS) and the owner of said apartment was listed as an address. After searching for the address of the listed owner, a business office pulled up, and in the suite number listed was a business called triangle accounting. After searching the name of the business, it states that this company is the largest Chinese accounting firm in the eastern United States.
Knowing this information now is throwing a lot of red flags for me. I used to work in property management and I know some places are listed under an LLC, but something about the separate apartment being listed and a Chinese accounting firm owning the building just seemed off to me.
This could just be me overthinking things, but it just didn’t make sense to me as we were notified today of the changes and rent is technically due today.