amandamcotton asked:
I put up flyers for pc work around my apartment complex. I then received a message from the property manager that she was going to have me arrested if she found anymore around her property. However, i get at least 2-3 flyers a week right on my front door, and those around me. Is this really solicitation on my part? And how is it any different from the flyers I receive?
Of course, I can’t say for sure that the manager does not call the others and leave them threatening messages as well. But I assume that either she hasn’t, or just doesn’t care about theirs, because its the exact same flyers that circulate every few weeks…
She did not know who I was at all. She had initally said she would also have me arrested for trespassing until I told her that I was a tenant of her apartment complex… I just thought she could go about telling me not to put them up in a nicer way. Instead, I had an answering machine message of her yelling into the phone and threatening to arrest me
Thank you all for the answers so far. I agree, I should have asked for permission first. It was my ignorance that sparked the situation. Tho i don’t think the way the property manager handled it was very nice either…
I put up flyers for pc work around my apartment complex. I then received a message from the property manager that she was going to have me arrested if she found anymore around her property. However, i get at least 2-3 flyers a week right on my front door, and those around me. Is this really solicitation on my part? And how is it any different from the flyers I receive?
Of course, I can’t say for sure that the manager does not call the others and leave them threatening messages as well. But I assume that either she hasn’t, or just doesn’t care about theirs, because its the exact same flyers that circulate every few weeks…
She did not know who I was at all. She had initally said she would also have me arrested for trespassing until I told her that I was a tenant of her apartment complex… I just thought she could go about telling me not to put them up in a nicer way. Instead, I had an answering machine message of her yelling into the phone and threatening to arrest me
Thank you all for the answers so far. I agree, I should have asked for permission first. It was my ignorance that sparked the situation. Tho i don’t think the way the property manager handled it was very nice either…
3 Comments
Yes, it is a solicitation. Yes, it is the same as the ones other people leave. Whether it is a crime depends on your sate and municipal laws. How do you know the manager doesn’t call the people who leave the other flyers & threaten them?
yeah it is solicitation. it is not legal.
You probably should have contacted the property manager and asked for permission to do so in the first place. She may be upset about that, more than any other reason.
If you mean fast food menus and things like that when you mention “other” flyers you receive, those people may be sneaking into your building as other people leave and distributing them then. Those people are not known to your property manager so catching them is much harder.
I’m giving this answer based on the assumption that you have your entire name or just your first name and phone number included on your flyers. That would be information your property manager already has on you, so it makes you much easier to catch.
I would suggest you try to put up flyers in a local supermarket or at high schools or libraries in the area. It may also help you to get more business by going out to the general public that way.
Provided, of course, that you ask permission to put them up first.