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Apartment In US Asks Tenants To 'Like' Facebook Page Or Face Action (business-standard.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the do-it-or-face-the-consequences dept.

An anonymous reader writes from a report via Business Standard: An apartment building in Salt Lake City has told tenants living in the complex to "like" its Facebook page or they will be in breach of their lease. Tenants of the City Park Apartments said they found a "Facebook addendum" taped to their doors last weekend, asking them to "like" the City Park Apartments Facebook page. The contract says that if tenants do not specifically "friend" City Park Apartments on Facebook within five days, they will be found in breach of the rental agreement. In addition, the contract includes a release allowing the business to post pictures of tenants and their visitors on the Facebook page. Currently, the apartment building has a 1.1 star rating on its Facebook page.

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  1. Please report this. by dgatwood · · Score: 5, Informative

    IIRC, that's a violation of Facebook's Terms of Service. Please report it to Facebook, and if enough people corroborate the report, the business in question won't have a page anymore.

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    1. Re: Please report this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      Slashdot is a little late on this, the apartment's facebook page has been taken offline already.

    2. Re: Please report this. by amicusNYCL · · Score: 4, Informative

      An unauthorized person did this

      That's not what the retraction says, it says that "management" circulated the new agreement and then goes on to explain what they intended by circulating it. That doesn't sound unauthorized.

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    3. Re: Please report this. by onepoint · · Score: 4, Informative

      As a Realtor, I would like to dispute your statement, from the perspective of apartment housing, not condo housing. Most property managers think they are above the law, and in most cases they get away with it. Don't forget, as long as they don't violate Fair Housing acts or any other housing related laws, they can act as a representative of the owner not to renew your lease or make your increase the highest in the development.

      Now, good owners are on top of the property managers to stop the bullshit, and some most are not. I deal with a lot of apartment building property managers and I will say, in general, they are dumb and need an ethics course. As a Realtor, if you take enough legal classes and have a lawyer to ask questions too, you save your clients butts more than once.

      Condo property managers are just horrible. very few know the rules and then they have to deal with board members that make life a living hell.

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    4. Re: Please report this. by jsh1972 · · Score: 5, Informative

      DRM rootkit, removal of "other OS" option from ps3 after some people had bought it specifically for that reason, don't really know of anything recent that compares to those two but then again i haven't been watching for anything, I pretty much auto ignore anything I see with Sony in the name now.

  2. See original source by AdamThor · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://www.ksl.com/?sid=39954...

    Article references original source...

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