- The contract requires tenants to friend the City Park Apartments on Facebook within five days, or be found in breach of the rental agreement, though some of the tenants already signed a lease agreement months ago.
Material change of contract, or a "get out of jail free" card if you refuse to sign the document.
- The document also includes a release allowing the apartment to post pictures of tenants and their visitors on the page.
Privacy violation. Not sure how the Landlord-Tennant laws are in Utah, but so lawyer out in SLC just imagined the new boat he is going to buy with the legal fees from this case.
I've lived in shit-hellholes that I would have loved to post about on social media. Then I grew up. To me this sounds like a crappy landlord who is trying to get his tenants to be his 'friend' and not having that necessary boundary needed between people involved in a business contract.
The one star yelp reviews are starting to come in as well.
It also looks like they have a clause prohibiting negative reviews online. Blatantly illegal in California, and they are trying to expand that nationwide.
The Streisand Effect is a bastard, and something tells me that people are going to think twice before renting in this place.
This is insane....Can anyone say invasion of privacy? But, that is what facebook is about I suppose. Still, this is shocking to me.
Contracts already signed so all the tenants have to do is ignore the request; it looks like some pro-bono people are stepping in to help the renters as well. The Landlords come off as nutjobs but there may be a whole sitcom of drama under all this that we are not privy to. Facebook has ZERO place in a business deal. The only thing that Facebook does in a situation like this is open you up to every single anti-discrimination law suit on the planet.