Copying another brokers Offering Memorandum - is it okay?
I recently joined a real estate firm directly out of college. The new firm is an equity shop but they also have a brokerage arm which I was asked to assist on. 

The broker asked me to create an offering memorandum for a propriety in a specific market and being resourceful, I found another OM in our database from an external broker for the same asset in the same market from a few months ago. 

Is it illegal or unethical to include information from the previous OM into mine?
[{"id": "h03jmgr", "text": "You're just starting out so great excuse to reach out to the external broker. I don't fully understand/know the exact set of circumstances here but I'd want to verify the accuracy of the information if I were putting it in front of any clients.", "replies": [{"id": "h03k16g", "text": "It\u2019s all just market information (demand drivers) and new and upcoming developments in the area. I\u2019ll definitely double check for accuracy", "replies": [{"id": "h05mb9r", "text": "When I started out, I'd always try to locate the original source, usually the area's economic development org. I'd copy/paste from their marketing materials if on a tight time crunch, but if I had the time I'd always try to rewrite the stats to tailor to the property. IE if we were close to the airport I'd include pieces of news related to upgrades they were doing to the terminal, or local hospital/university expansions. Its all filler until you're on the phone with the client and you can bs about the stuff you actually researched instead of copying the stuff and not absorbing any of it.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h03lhqe", "text": "All the market information should be taken information directly from the source, you also in OM also state the source of information. IF the other company OM the source of market info should be quoted - if not I woud not consider this as a good practise or OM - and I think I want though over 1000 of different OM from different brokers over last 15 years across CEE", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h03rfek", "text": "Honestly, most of the data should be very similar depending on what data you are talking about.  I wouldn't copy it word for word but most of them are created with data from costar and it Google searches of the market area.  Verify the research and you may see that the other one was copied as well.  Some data like strategy and financials are more subjective depending on the pitch", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h03xrze", "text": "Wait until you find out that broker took it from another broker ad infinitum.", "replies": [{"id": "h05x9as", "text": "so true", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h044q96", "text": "Here is the thing, I think you can copy in many aspects the format and take hints, but I would make it your own. For example, it is fine if you take their spec sheet and add the information of your property, what is not nice is if they have text describing the city or the tenant and you copy paste it. You can check their sources and come up with something on your own. Copying exact information is a big  no-no, using the same template is also a big no.", "replies": [{"id": "h04jbt6", "text": "Great advice", "replies": [{"id": "h05nq2l", "text": "Agreed", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h05xg4k", "text": "It's just like college, make it look different enough so that you don't get popped by the AI scanning the paper. \n\nAs an aside, isn't it kind of a shitty feeling to make a copy of an OM? Four years of school to rewrite some boomers shitty offering, lol.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "h06ahso", "text": "It\u2019s fine, just edit out the company\u2019s logo and put your firms in. That\u2019s what all the brokerages do anyway", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]