----- Forwarded Message -----
From: John McMillan
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Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020, 01:03:03 PM CDT
Subject: Fw: 3-26-20 PIR re: TREC Enforcement Division Attorneys and me
A respectful FYI to each of you on the following update in regard to my March 26, 2020-dated e-mail public-information request (below) to the Texas Real Estate Commission state agency in Austin,
from gainfully-employed and rent-paying official apartment tenant John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
John Kevin McMillan
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: John McMillan
To: Dione Frederick ; Public Information ; Roberto Moctezuma ; Rosie Truelove ; Sona Nast ; Kirk Watson ; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; Darla Dixon ; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ) ; Margaret Moore ; Mike Henderson ; Fbinaa Info ; Humantrafficking ; human.trafficking@ag.ny.gov ; David Maxwell ; Hernandez Sally [TCSO] ; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator ; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; District 4 ; Commissioner Jeffrey Travillion 2019 ; Travis County Commissioner Brigid Shea ; gerald.daugherty@traviscountytx.gov ; TRA General Counsel Kenneth Besserman ; adttx@live.com ; zachandalex17@gmail.com ; Rep. Sheryl Cole (2019 CentralTX) ; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan ; central_texas@cruz.senate.gov ; ACLU ; Texas Legal ; U.S. Department of Homeland Security ; takebackhope@tlsc.org ; Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016 ; State Comptroller Criminal Investigations Division Chief Martin Cano ; Austin American-Statesman Managing Editor John Bridges ; Ftc Webmaster ; U.S. Marshals Service Justice Dept. ; Doc Webmaster ; Rey Arellano ; APD Interim Police Chief Brian Manley ; Austin Police Dept. Asst. Chief Troy Gay ; marcos.johnson@austintexas.gov ; John Hitzelberg ; Rep. John Bucy 2019CentralTX ; StateRep.DonnaHoward ; Joyfulheartfoundation Info ; NYT News Tips ; Unknown National ; Criminal Justice Journalists Board Member Rashbaum ; Criminal Justice Journalists Brd Wenger 2016 ; Travis County Criminal Justice/Public Safety Director ; Dwayne Bohac ; Spencer Cronk ; arthur.fortune@austintexas.gov ; Justin Holland ; Federal Law Enf. Officers Assn ; Texas DPS Office of General Counsel ; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Devlpt (TX regional office) ; Gina Hinojosa ; Austin Chronicle Editors ; KEYE CBS News Austin 2017 ; CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters <60m cbsnews.com="">; Don Zimmerman District 6 Northwest Austin ; District 1 ; Ghbc Info ; Rep. Erin Zwiener 2019CentralTX ; Kyle Biedermann ; Rainn Info ; bill.zedler@house.texas.gov ; Nicole D. Collier ; Texas Tenants Union ; alumnimembership@umn.edu ; Daily Texan Alumni Association (2016) ; news@dailytexanonline.com ; dhiott@kut.org ; Bnaibrith Info ; National Center On Elder Abuse
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020, 12:29:56 PM CDT
Subject: Fw: 3-26-20 PIR re: TREC Enforcement Division Attorneys and me
To: Dione Frederick,
Public Information Officer,
Texas Real Estate Commission and
Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board,
Stephen F. Austin Building,
1700 North Congress Avenue,
Suite 400
Austin, TX 78701
Your office phone: (512) 936-3652.
Main office FAX: 512-936-3798.
March 27, 2020
Dear Ms. Frederick,
Thank you for your prompt reply letter (immediately below) acknowledging receipt of my March 26, 2020-dated e-mail public-information request (farther below) to your State Government of Texas agency in Austin.
I will look forward to receiving a follow-up reply letter from you in the very near future that provides me with any and all responsive legal documents
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, requestor.
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
Public Information Officer,
Texas Real Estate Commission and
Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board,
Stephen F. Austin Building,
1700 North Congress Avenue,
Suite 400
Austin, TX 78701
Your office phone: (512) 936-3652.
Main office FAX: 512-936-3798.
March 27, 2020
Dear Ms. Frederick,
Thank you for your prompt reply letter (immediately below) acknowledging receipt of my March 26, 2020-dated e-mail public-information request (farther below) to your State Government of Texas agency in Austin.
I will look forward to receiving a follow-up reply letter from you in the very near future that provides me with any and all responsive legal documents
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, requestor.
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
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On Friday, March 27, 2020, 11:14:32 AM CDT, Public Information wrote:
The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC)/Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board (TALCB) has received your public information request and we have forwarded your request to the appropriate department for processing. We will contact you if:
* we require clarification of your request;
* there will be a fee to process your request;
* your request will require computer programming or processing; or
* the information you have requested is confidential by law or may be withheld under the Texas Public Information Act.
If none of these circumstances apply to your request, you may expect to receive a response within ten working days.
Please feel free to contact this office with any questions.
Sincerely,
Dione Frederick
Public Information Officer
Texas Real Estate Commission
Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board
(512) 936-3652
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On Friday, March 27, 2020, 11:14:32 AM CDT, Public Information
The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC)/Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board (TALCB) has received your public information request and we have forwarded your request to the appropriate department for processing. We will contact you if:
* we require clarification of your request;
* there will be a fee to process your request;
* your request will require computer programming or processing; or
* the information you have requested is confidential by law or may be withheld under the Texas Public Information Act.
If none of these circumstances apply to your request, you may expect to receive a response within ten working days.
Please feel free to contact this office with any questions.
Sincerely,
Dione Frederick
Public Information Officer
Texas Real Estate Commission
Texas Appraiser Licensing and Certification Board
(512) 936-3652
_________
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: John McMillan
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Subject: 3-26-20 PIR re: TREC Enforcement Division Attorneys and me
My home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North PLaza Drive, Apt. 2418 (in Building 17), Austin, TX 78753.
My home phone; (512) 342-2295.
My cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
March 26, 2020
To: Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC),Public Information Coordinator,Stephen F. Austin Building,1700 North Congress Avenue,Suite 400Austin, TX 78701
Office phone: (512) 936-3000Office FAX: 512-936-3798.
Dear TREC Public Information Coordinator,
This is a Texas Open Records request in which I seek to obtain from you a copy of any and all telephone messages or written communications, including any and all e-mail communications and any and all letters or reports or memoranda, that were written or compiled or received or sent or forwarded or FAXed or mailed by or on behalf of any attorney employed anywhere in the Standards and Enforcement Services Division of your State of Texas agency in Austin at any time since January 1, 2018, that each specifically refer at least once in any manner to myself, John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas, or to any of the following components of the real-estate property in Austin where I myself currently reside: either Apartment 2418 in Building 17 at Pebble Creek Apartments, or the multi-unit Building 17 at Pebble Creek Apartments, or this entire apartment complex, Pebble Creek Apartments, at 8805 North Plaza Drive in north Austin.
INCLUDED IN THE SCOPE OF THIS PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST ARE ANY AND ALL E-MAIL LETTERS SENT TO ME AT ANY TIME SINCE JANUARY 1, 2018, BY TREC STAFF ATTORNEY W. KENNETH HERRING OR TREC ATTORNEY BEVERLY RABENBERG FROM YOUR STATE AGENCY'S STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT SERVICES DIVISION HERE IN AUSTIN.
My legal name is John Kevin McMillan. My date of birth is April 27, 1957. I am a native of Lincoln, Nebraska.
I have paid for and kept the same landline phone number for myself throughout the entire time period applicable to this public-information request. That phone number is: (512) 342-2295.
Ever since August of 2019, I have also paid for and used a cell phone number for myself through AT&T. That cell phone number is: (512) 993-7305.
I have also used the same primary e-mail address for myself throughout the entire period applicable to this public-information request. That primary e-mail address for me is: "mcmillanj@att.net".
I have resided in Austin proper on a continuous and uninterrupted basis ever since mid-March 1997.
During the period applicable to this public information request, I have resided at the following addresses:---Village Oaks Apartments, 10926 Jollyville Road, Apt. 1609, Austin, TX 78759.---Austin Motor Inn, 11400 N Interstate Hwy 35, Austin, TX 78753.---Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apartment 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Enforcement
To: John McMillan
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 10:56:33 AM CST
Subject: RE: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
Please remove TREC from this email stream.
W. Kenneth Herring
Staff Attorney
Standards & Enforcement Services
Texas Real Estate Commission
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For the record, the very surprising rejection letter to me from Mr. Herring is only the second occasion I can currently recall in which an official for entire State Government of Texas agency has ever requested in writing that I myself refrain from sending any more e-mail correspondence of mine to anyone at that state agency.
The only other comparable occasion I can currently recall occurred in 2016 when a self-identified representative for the entire University of Texas System, UT System Assistant Director of Police Ruben Puente, sent me an e-mail letter in which he requested in writing that I myself refrain from ever again contacting either the UT System headquarters in downtown Austin or any outlying UT System component institution outside of Austin, such as UT-San Antonio or the UT Medical School at Galveston, Officer Puente apparently indicated. Officer Puente did not cite any specific reason for his request, nor did Officer Puente ever cite any conduct of my own that was possibly or allegedly not in full compliance with the law on my part. Nor did Officer Puente cite any legal action by the UT System Board of Regents or UT System Chancellor here in Austin that related to me or referred to me in any way:
"Puente, Ruben
To:mcmillanj@att.net,tamara.smith@texasattorneygeneral.gov,lori.carter@traviscountytx.gov,foift@foift.org,nfoic@nfoic.organd 91 more...
Cc:rpuente@utsystem.edu
"Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:45 PM
"Good afternoon John, it’s been several years since we’ve spoken by phone. First, I would like to thank you for maintaining your end of our agreement not to expand your recipient list by adding anymore UT System representatives to your email chain. Secondly, I would respectfully ask that your remove my name as well as Mr. Barry Burgdorf’s name from your recipient list. Mr. Burgdorf is no longer with the UT System. If there’s other UT System representatives I’ve missed, please remove them as well. At this juncture, I do not foresee any impact the UT System can have on your behalf. Thirdly, I wish you well.
"My Regards,
"Ruben Puente "Ruben Puente
Assistant Director
"Office of the Director of Police
"The University of Texas System
"201 West 7th Street, ASH 416, Austin, TX 78701
"512-499-4686 Office, 512 499-4684 Fax
"Follow Us: www.utsystem.edu/pol
"Office of the Director of Police
"A Message from the 100th UT System Basic Police Officer Class Mission"
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In regard to your own very influential TREC state agency in Austin, ever since late February 2020 I have, of course, promptly and politely and very diligently honored TREC attorney Herring's written request to me after I fully understood the apparent entire scope of his request (see further below for elaboration on that).
This Texas Open Records request directly and specifically addressed to your state agency in Austin comprises a legally-protected exception. First-rate State Bar of Texas member attorneys whom I have consulted have helpfully assured me that I always enjoy the legal right to myself submit a public-information request or Texas Open Records request per se to ANY government-owned institution in Texas---regardless of whether that government agency had previously sent me a rejection letter.
This public-information request was also prompted by a detailed February 24, 2020, reply e-mail letter to me from attorney Beverly Rabenberg of your state agency's Standards and Enforcement Services Division:
On Monday, February 24, 2020, 09:31:33 AM CST, Enforcement wrote:
"Mr. McMillan:
"The Texas Real Estate Commission is the licensing and disciplinary agency for real estate license holders and enforcements the provisions of The Real Estate License Act and the Rules of the Commission. On-site managers of apartment complexes are exempt from the real estate licensure requirements pursuant to Section 1101.005(7) of the License Act and the Commission has no jurisdiction over them. Whether there are any other laws that apply to them, we do not know, and would direct you to talk with a private attorney, or consider contacting the Austin Tenants Council at (512) 474-1961.
"That being said, an online search of the Travis Central Appraisal District records shows the owner of the property at 8805 North Plaza, Austin, 78752 as Pebble Creek Babay, Ltd., c/o Rudy Belton, 505 East Huntland Drive, Suite 530, Austin TX 78752-3760."Thank you for your inquiry.
"Beverly Rabenberg
"Beverly S. Rabenberg
"Attorney
"Texas Real Estate Commission
"Standards & Enforcement Services
"P.O. Box 12188
"Austin, TX 78711-2188
"512-936-3005
"512-936-3809 Fax"
______________________
As a courtesy to your State of Texas agency in your search for responsive legal documents, I am also providing you (below) with the entire verbatim e-mail correspondence context in which I received the two above-cited e-mail reply letters this year from two above-cited respective attorneys for your state agency's Standards and Enforcement Services Division in Austin:
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: John McMillan
To: Austin Police Dept. Asst. Chief Troy Gay
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 04:19:16 PM CDT
Subject: Fw: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
APD Chief of Staff Gay,
Below, please find additional documentation for my written appeal through the official APD chain of command in regard to allegedly unprofessional conduct toward me by APD Sex Crimes Unit Sergeant Sandra Benningfield,
from complainant John Kevin McMillan of Austin.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
John Kevin McMillan
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: John McMillan
To: Jennifer Stephenson
Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2020, 01:40:14 AM CST
Subject: Fw: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
Dear APD Assistant Chief Stephenson,
FYI on this additional legal document (below) I sent to APD Commander Catherine Johnson in my current multi-document written appeal through the proper APD chain of command.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.
Home phone: (5120 342-2295.
John Kevin McMillan
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: John McMillan
To: Margaret Moore
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020, 06:00:53 PM CST
Subject: Fw: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
February 27, 2020
Dear Highly-Esteemed Government Officials,
I have today for the first time read the following Feb. 26-dated e-mail request (below) from an attorney for the Austin-based Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) state agency, and effective immediately I will of course fully honor that attorney's written request of me.
I need to explain that when I quickly read that note from the attorney earlier today for the first time, I assumed that TREC attorney W. Kenneth Herring was requesting that I refrain from sending any more to e-mails specifically to "enforcement@trec.texas.gov"-----the official e-mail address for the TREC's Enforcement Services office in Austin.
Based on that assumption, I did today send one total courtesy carbon-copy to the main e-mail address for the TREC-----"information@trec.texas.gov".
After this evening re-reading the e-mail reply note to me from Mr. Herring, I now realize that Mr. Herring was also apparently requesting that I refrain from sending any additional e-mails of any type to ANY office of his State Government of Texas agency.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
longstanding criminal-law complainant and longtime-apartment tenant John Kevin McMillan of Austin, Texas.
Home address: Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
John Kevin McMillan
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Enforcement
To: John McMillan
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 10:56:33 AM CST
Subject: RE: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
Please remove TREC from this email stream.
W. Kenneth Herring
Staff Attorney
Standards & Enforcement Services
Texas Real Estate Commission
Excellent customer service is our goal. Please offer your feedback.
From: John McMillan
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:47 PM
To: CSinfo@tcadcentral.org; Enforcement ; Margaret Moore ; John Hitzelberg ; catherine.johnson@austintexas.gov; Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt ; Hernandez Sally [TCSO] ; Kirk Watson ; City of Austin Interim City Attorney Anne Morgan ; CountyAttorneyDavidEscamilla ; Sona Nast ; Rep. Sheryl Cole (2019 CentralTX) ; District 4 ; Texas Tenants Union ; Dave Mahoney ; Daniel Evans ; Mike Henderson ; Jackson Anna ; Austin American-Statesman Managing Editor John Bridges ; Dwayne Bohac ; IRS U.S. Treasury Dept. Non-Compliance Investigators ; Humantrafficking ; icehumantrafficking.helpdesk@dhs.gov; human.trafficking@ag.ny.gov; U.S. Department of Homeland Security ; charles.wood@texasattorneygeneral.gov; David Maxwell ; Governor's Office of Texas Open Records Administrator ; Dennis Bonnen ; State Comptroller Criminal Investigations Division Chief Martin Cano ; Information ; Texas Legal ; ACLU ; central_texas@cruz.senate.gov; Texas Rangers Division of DPS ; Office for Victims of Crime (U.S. DOJ) ; Rey Arellano ; Spencer Cronk ; Joyfulheartfoundation Info ; Rainn Info ; sarah@nshhcoalition.org; takebackhope@tlsc.org; Texas Association Against Sexual Assault Atty Kaiser 2016 ; Texas Apartment Association ; Fbinaa Info ; Gerald Daugherty ; Margaret Gomez ; Austin Mayor Steve Adler ; Darla Dixon ; Travis County Commissioner Brigid Shea ; Commission On Accreditation of Law Enf. Agencies ; Thomas ; Joebiden Info ; U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (2015) ; TRA General Counsel Kenneth Besserman ; National Crime Victim Law Institute (Lewis & Clark Law School Portland Oregon) ; Jeff Pender ; Justin Holland ; Piper Stege Nelson ; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Devlpt (TX regional office) ; Patrick B. Howard ; Wind River Crossing GM Ann Coker ; Javier Cansino ; help@elizabethwarren.com; Amy Klobuchar ; Minnesota Center Against Sexual Assault Violence and Abuse ; Minnesota Sex Crimes Investigators Assn. Brd Member Dunphy (2016) ; Martin Jason [APD] ; Michael Eveleth ; Dell ; Travis County Auditor Patti Smith 2019 ; Austin City Auditor QA Coordinator (2016) ; District 1 ; Austin City Council Member Ann Kitchen (2016) ; District 7 ; Don Zimmerman District 6 Northwest Austin ; Doc Webmaster ; Ftc Webmaster ; Bloomberg Media 2015 ; Patsy Spaw ; CBS News '60 Minutes' Editors and Reporters <60m cbsnews.com="">; Criminal Justice Journalists Board Member Rashbaum ; Unknown National ; National Center On Elder Abuse ; StateRep.DonnaHoward ; Rosie Truelove ; Bnaibrith Info ; Williamson County (TX) Attorney (2016) ; Common Cause ; Open Society Foundations ; Nicole D. Collier ; Commissioner Jeffrey Travillion 2019 ; bill.zedler@house.texas.gov; Federal Law Enf. Officers Assn ; Austin Chronicle Editors ; KEYE CBS News Austin 2017 ; Garnet F. Coleman ; State Senator Joan Huffman ; Kyle Biedermann ; DFPS Office Of Consumer Relations
Subject: Re: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
February 25, 2020
Dear Officials for the Travis County Central Appraisal District in Austin, Texas,
I received a recent reply e-mail letter (below) from a polite female attorney for the Texas Real Estate Commission state agency that directly referred to your government agency.
That reply letter to me from Ms. Beverly Rabenberg cites purportedly up-to-date and factual online property-ownership information that is currently being provided to the general public by your very influential Travis County Government-affiliated government agency.
This is a follow-up note to politely ask you if your Travis County Government-affiliated agency is currently aware that Mr. Rudy Belton---the individual currently cited online at your official website as himself being the "current" official agent for the owner of the Pebble Creek Apartments where I am currently residing as the official rent-paying tenant in a solo-occupancy efficiency unit at 8805 North Plaza Drive in north Austin---died four and one-half years ago?
The link to his obituary in the "Austin American-Statesman: is as follows:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesman/obituary.aspx?n=rudy-dean-belton&pid=175820545&fhid=5106
I would appreciate receiving a helpful reply letter from your Travis County Appraisal District that kindly provides me with the current name and current address and, if applicable, current phone number of the CURRENT agent for the owner of Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, in north Austin.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.
My home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt., 2418, Austin, TX 78753.
My home phone: (512) 342-2295,
My cell phone:L (512) 993-7305.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
.
John Kevin McMillan
On Monday, February 24, 2020, 09:31:33 AM CST, Enforcement
Mr McMillan:
The Texas Real Estate Commission is the licensing and disciplinary agency for real estate license holders and enforcements the provisions of The Real Estate License Act and the Rules of the Commission. On-site managers of apartment complexes are exempt from the real estate licensure requirements pursuant to Section 1101.005(7) of the License Act and the Commission has no jurisdiction over them. Whether there are any other laws that apply to them, we do not know, and would direct you to talk with a private attorney, or consider contacting the Austin Tenants Council at (512) 474-1961.
That being said, an online search of the Travis Central Appraisal District records shows the owner of the property at 8805 North Plaza, Austin, 78752 as Pebble Creek Babay, Ltd., c/o Rudy Belton, 505 East Huntland Drive, Suite 530, Austin TX 78752-3760.
Thank you for your inquiry.
Beverly Rabenberg
Beverly S. Rabenberg
Attorney
Texas Real Estate Commission
Standards & Enforcement Services
P.O. Box 12188
Austin, TX 78711-2188
512-936-3005
512-936-3809 Fax
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From: John McMillan Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:09 PM
To: Enforcement
Subject: Fw: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
February 21, 2020
Dear First-Rate Attorneys for the Texas Real Estate Commission state agency in Austin,
I would like to thank the very helpful female staff member for your State of Texas agency who volunteered your official e-mail address to me on the telephone this morning after I explained to her the unexpected barrier I have faced in my polite attempt at obtaining contact information for the current owner of my current apartment complex where I'm a rent-paying official tenant in north Austin.
Below, please find the very unexpected reply letter I received yesterday from the immediate supervisor of my polite General Manager here at Pebble Creek Apartments, with an abbreviated version of that reply letter also being provided by me directly below here:
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Cecil Domel
To: John McMillan
Cc: Juan Acosta
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020, 02:05:59 PM CST
Subject: RE: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
"Hi John,
"I am sorry but our privacy policy will not allow us to give you the information you are requesting...."
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I myself am an official rent-paying tenant here at Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, in north Austin. I would like to respectfully raise the question of whether a management team for an apartment complex in Austin, Texas, has the legal right under state law to decline to provide a rent-paying official tenant (that's me) with the name and address and office phone number for the owner of the apartment unit or apartment building in which that tenant is residing.
I might add that I am the ONLY official tenant and ONLY approved official occupant cited on my current 12-month signed and official lease agreement with this gated and large apartment complex in north Austin.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.
Home address ever since June 21, 2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418 (a solo-occupancy efficiency apartment unit in Building 17), Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
John Kevin McMillan
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: John McMillan
To: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020, 04:24:44 PM CST
Subject: Fw: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
A respectful FYI to each of you on the very surprising reply letter I received today from the immediate supervisor of my polite General Manager, General Manager Juan Acosta, here at Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive in north Austin.
I am the only official tenant and only approved occupant on my current 12-month lease agreement for my current apartment unit, Apartment 2418, here at Pebble Creek Apartments.
I decided to share this update information with each of you because this is the very first occasion I can recall in which I have been informed in writing that I am denied contact information by the management team for my apartment complex in regard to the owner of my apartment unit where I was myself residing at that time as a rent-paying official tenant.
I would appreciate any suggestions or advice from any of you in regard to this surprising development for me today at my current apartment complex in north Austin. I might add that I would welcome any reply note from any of you on any aspect of this.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan, longstanding criminal-law complainant in Alleged Continuous-and-Continuing-Daily-and-Year-round Personal-Injury-Crimes-and-Sex Crimes and Possible Alleged Human-Trafficking-and-Sex-Trafficking Case 16-1340923.
My home address ever since June 21,2019:
Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, Apt. 2418 (in Building 17), Austin, TX 78753.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
John Kevin McMillan
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: Cecil Domel
To: John McMillan
Cc: Juan Acosta
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020, 02:05:59 PM CST
Subject: RE: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
Hi John,
I am sorry but our privacy policy will not allow us to give you the information you are requesting. You are more than welcome to ask the office to put in a work order so can investigate any possible entrances into your apartment.
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From: John McMillan
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:04 PM
To: Cecil Domel ; Juan Acosta
Subject: 2-20-20 request for contact information for owner
February 20, 2020
Dear Cecil,
Juan Acosta, the polite general manager here at Pebble Creek Apartments, has informed me on the telephone today (during a phone call he made to my landline phone number of (512) 342-2295, at about 12:42 p.m.) that I may write to you directly in order to obtain from you the contact information I need for the owner of my rental-apartment unit, Apartment 2418.
I might also add at this time that I will also need contact information from you for the owner of Building 17, the multi-unit apartment building in which I am currently residing as an official rent-paying tenant and only approved occupant inside my current solo-occupancy efficiency apartment unit.
Juan Acosta mentioned to me today that you are his immediate supervisor, and you are the appropriate person for me to send an e-mail to in order to myself obtain contact information for the owner of my apartment unit, Juan indicated.
I plan to inform the owner of my apartment unit, and the owner of Building 17 or the owner of any unit in Building 17 that abuts my own unit, for that matter, that I have some security concerns relating to my current apartment unit.
I also plan to ask the owner whether he or she or they are aware of any possible point of entry into my apartment unit other than my front door, my sliding glass door, and the window that leads into my kitchen. I always keep all of the three total management-team-cited possible points of entry into my current rental unit bolt-locked (if applicable) or locked and fully secured at all times.
Thank you in advance, Cecil, for your helpful reply letter to me on this.
Sincerely and Best Wishes, John Kevin McMillan, the only official rent-paying tenant ever since June 21, 2019, in Apartment 2418 at Pebble Creek Apartments, 8805 North Plaza Drive, in north Austin. I am on a 12-month, management-team-approved and signed lease agreement for my efficiency
apartment unit.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
Cell phone: (512) 993-7305.
John Kevin McMillan
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