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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. Re: Please report this. by iggymanz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    please do, a business who lets "unauthorized people" put random crap in a lease or otherwise burden tenants with nonsense must pay the price.

    there are laws about this kind of thing

  2. Re: Thank you for your kind permission by silentcoder · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In most sane jurisdictions thats not allowed. Im a landlord and there are definite restrictions around this I have to comply with. Cannot alter the lease agreement before it is up without tennants consent. Cannot evict anybody without a court order (so a judge can check fair play) cant market the property for sale until the last 2 months of the lease.
    And as a landlord I call these things the restrictions of a sane system. As a decent human being I would never do any less anyway but it evens the playing field by forcing the evil types to do what a decent human being would never consider not doing.
    Keeping evil people from getting higher profit margines by acting evil to those less well off is something many here would call an intrusion on liberty. Maybe but I for obe consider it a justified and valid one since liberty should not be restricted to those rich enough to own multiple properties.

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  3. Re: Please report this. by MitchDev · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Screw ToS violations, I think we're looking at LEGAL violations here...