The latest effort by landlords to turn their tenants into serfs comes from Utah, where tenants of an apartment complex have been served with a lease addendum requiring them to ‘Like’ the complex on Facebook or face eviction.
Oh, and the addendum also declares that the landlords have the right to use photos of tenants and their guests in their own Facebook page advertising the joint.
From KSL News in Salt Lake [and not the station’s bizarre use of the term “news specialist” in the program notes to describe in simpler times has known as a reporter]:
Unlike: Tenants fume over apartment complex’s new Facebook addendum
Program notes:
Some Apartment tenants in Salt Lake City are being required to connect with their complex’s Facebook page. At least according to their new lease agreement. News Specialist Mike Anderson has more on why one attorney says it might not be legal.
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