Should I provide contact details of my attorney to the investigator?

I hired an Attorney who is local and has 3 decades worth of experience dealing ONLY with Fair Housing.

The investigator is emailing me on a daily basis asking me like a pest. So I finally told the Investigator that I am taking the advise from a legal counsel and an attorney will be present when we are on call for interview.

The investigator is asking me the name and contact details of Attorney. I am having representation and will pay to attorney on an hourly basis. I have provided all the facts, the background information, the events to my attorney.

I also asked Investigator to send me the questions that will be asked during the interview. I have prepared those answers which my attorney has reviewed. Some of those questions are illegal (as per Attorney). The attorney has prepared the legitimate answers based on the information I have provided. When we get on the call, the attorney will be the one who will be doing all the talking.

I do not want Investigator to directly go to the attorney. I would like to know the questions the Investigator asks, prepare my answers, send to my attorney and provide answers that my attorney sends me. This way,

1. I know all the questions that the Investigator asks.

2. I get a chance to prepare and provide relevant information to my attorney.

3. I can control and keep track of hours the attorney spends. If I simply provide the attorney's address, the investigator may get the attorney on the call and will take lot of attorney's time. If that happens, I will end up spending thousands of dollars, just in fees.

Please let me know, should I provide contact details of my attorney to the investigator?

Thank you all.

That is what I am dreading. The Investigator and Attorney will go back and forth like a ping pong while I watch my $ go up.

There is a specific form - the name of it I can't recall....but it is filed into the court that says, that the attorney is representing you and stop any further direct contact with you without going through the attorney.

It translates into the message, you are not low lying fruit to the non-profit that is processing the fair housing complaint.

There are enough miss-doings in the world of Fair Housing that the agency may elect to drop the complaint after a very short investigation period.

From what I recall, you said this was a case of he said/she said.

Remember the old adage, "Anything you say can and will be used against you..."

I reiterate my advice from the last post: stop communicating with this investigator. Anything you say... ANYTHING... even "stop contacting me or my attorney" can and will be used against you.

Just go silent. Think like a submarine captain trying to avoid sonar. Stop all engines. No one sneeze. No one even fart.

The investigator can find you and drag you into court. Don't make it easy. You play as dumb as your attorney advises you at the time. If "Your Honor, I wasn't seeing the investigator's mail/email messages to me" is what your attorney suggests, then that's what you say. If "Your Honor, I felt like I had Covid during that time and was not in any condition to respond" is what your attorney suggests, then that's what you say.

Covid is asymptomatic in 33% of the population, so it very well could be true as far as you know....

Not. Another. Solitary. Word. to this investigator. Not even, "See ya in court." The investigator's job is to ruin you. Your job is to make that impossible. If and when a judge compels you to speak, then you will speak and you will say only the words your attorney tells you to say.

Thanks to Ken, Ray-N-Pa and Sid.

I am not going to respond to this investigator that has been a pest and sending me emails every single day.

I will let my attorney respond. It is "he said and she said case". I have all documented proof that I will provide to my attorney. Plus, there are occasions where the ex-tenant lied and mislead the Eviction Court as well as (un)Fair Housing. I have documented proof of that as well.

Alex,

Tough love? Back off.

I realize this has you agitated but take a breath and quit trying to fix this yourself. You are making this worse.

We've ALL been thru this. You will get thru this IF you let the atty work.

You remind me of a guy getting a filling and directing the dentist while he is drilling.

If you are too intrusive the atty might drop you as a client.

I did not see you type anything about court so it could just be a clerk filling out a form to get your complainant off his back. MANY are settled with a simple phone call BY YOUR ATTY NOT YOU!!!

Pay the atty and keep your mouth shut.

Forget keeping track of the hours and be relieved you found experienced help.

Best if you are not present - then they cannot trap you or get you to say something wrong. If you are NOT on the call/interview the atty will answer for you. Sometimes if they ask a question and you are not there the atty can legitimately say "I don't know" and the investigator drops the question.

HE knows how to speak to them and what they want to hear.

YOU don't.

Let the man do his job for you.

BRAD 20000,

Yes, the case is with an Investigator, in initial stages and is not with court. The ex-tenant filed a complaint and the Investigator sent me a set of questions.

The Investigator has only one sided story, that is, from my former tenant. But my attorney will respond to my side of story. I have provided the relevant information, documentation and proof to my attorney.

Alex,

I'll bet you a milkshake that list of questions is a generic form they send to everyone on every complaint.

Your atty will keep the instigator "on track" and not let him/her drag in other issues or traps.

I watched my atty do this with a judge who wanted extraneous information like how long have I had the home, purchase price.... My atty politely said said "We're here to talk about unpaid rent."

I think spell correct made a Freudian slip!

It changed INVESTIGATOR to INSTIGATOR. So true!

Ray, the document you describe is an Entry of Appearance.

Vee- " all you wanted to say was the facts in three or four words"

What I hear is " all you wanted to do was make a statement which could bury you"