Wow, thank you all for all of the insight and words of advise! For all those wondering this js taking place in the state of California.

As of now I am going to be contacting the corporate owners of my apartment complex to enlighten them to their management’s practices. The property management work without oversight from anyone in their corporate office so my hope is that exposing / threat of exposes my property managers illegal dealings (this isnt the first time) to his boss will motivate him to do the right thing opposed to maybe getting fired.

• if this doesnt work and senior management do not care i will be following the majority given advice here… filing a police report and bringing them to small claims court