When can a landlord calla tenant’s employer?

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When can a landlord calla tenant’s employer?

Landlord lives out-of-state and could not locate tenants in NM. So the landlord sent e-mail to employer asking if the tenant still worked there, as the landlord could not reach the tenant by work phone or cell phone.

Asked on August 3, 2011 New Mexico

Answers:

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 13 years ago | Contributor

A landlord may call (or otherwise contact) the tenant's employer at any time, whenever he or she likes--or could contact the tenant's family, friends, a restaurant which the landlord knows the tenant frequents, a school the tenant attends, etc. There is no law against person A calling persons B, C, D, etc. in order to locate person E. The only real restriction in this area is if the landlord is trying to collect a debt (e.g. back rent) and is not doing it him- or herself, but rather has engaged a third-party debt collector (e.g. a collection agency) to collect for him. The Fair Debt Collections Practices Act  (FDCPA) puts limits on a third-party debt collector's ability to contact people to collect a debt. But if the landlord is trying to collect his or her own debt, these restrictions would not apply.


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