Pompano Beach, FL asked in Criminal Law and Real Estate Law for Florida

Q: Is it illegal to threaten to get someone fired for not doing their job correctly?

I live in homeowners association - I’m a owner. We have a guard gate and guard is supposed to let people in based on a list from management office of approved people.

If they are not on list - they must get approval to let visitor in and call us asking if they can come in.

I had a realtor coming to look at my house. She was turned away by guard because she was not on list after I not only told guards and management offices to let all realtors in.

Guard had claimed to call me but no one answered. No call was ever made.

Since this was a loss of potential buyer of my house and the 3rd time guard office messed up, I called guard and threatened her that she would be fired for not doing job correctly.

She called police and they were at my door asking if I threatened her job. Asking me to watch my words. But they never mentioned anything other than telling me not to threaten her job. So it’s illegsl to complain about service we pay for?

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Jonathan A. Klurfeld
Jonathan A. Klurfeld
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  • Criminal Law Lawyer
  • Boca Raton, FL
  • Licensed in Florida

A: Illegal/criminal? No. But your HOA can make your life hell for threatening their employee, so it's not in your best interest to getting help letting realtors in to threaten anyone. Further you have zero power to fire anyone that is hired by the HOA Board.

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