We examine spectral behavior of irreducible tuples that do not admit the boundary property.In particular, we prove under some mild assumption that the spectral radius of such an   $m$ -tuple
 $m$ -tuple  $\left( {{T}_{1}},\,.\,.\,.\,,\,{{T}_{m}} \right)$ must be the operator norm of
 $\left( {{T}_{1}},\,.\,.\,.\,,\,{{T}_{m}} \right)$ must be the operator norm of   $T_{1}^{*}\,{{T}_{1}}\,+\,.\,.\,.\,+\,T_{m}^{*}{{T}_{m}}$ . We use this simple observation to ensure the boundary property for an irreducible, essentially normal, joint q-isometry, provided it is not a joint isometry. We further exhibit a family of reproducing Hilbert
 $T_{1}^{*}\,{{T}_{1}}\,+\,.\,.\,.\,+\,T_{m}^{*}{{T}_{m}}$ . We use this simple observation to ensure the boundary property for an irreducible, essentially normal, joint q-isometry, provided it is not a joint isometry. We further exhibit a family of reproducing Hilbert   $\mathbb{C}\left[ {{z}_{1}},\,.\,.\,.\,,{{z}_{m}} \right]$ -modules (of which the Drury–Arveson Hilbert module is a prototype) with the property that any two nested unitarily equivalent submodules are indeed equal.
 $\mathbb{C}\left[ {{z}_{1}},\,.\,.\,.\,,{{z}_{m}} \right]$ -modules (of which the Drury–Arveson Hilbert module is a prototype) with the property that any two nested unitarily equivalent submodules are indeed equal.