Apartment complex requires residents to have FACEBOOK account, to like complex, and to allow complex to post photos of residents.
This is absolutely bizarre and a violation of human rights! An apartment complex in Salt Lake City, Utah left notices on doors that every resident must have a Facebook account, like the apartment complex on the account, and allow the complex to post photos of residents and their guests.
This is beyond bizarre. What if someone does not want a Facebook account, and what if they do not want pictures of themselves or their guests online?
What about someone who does not have a computer or the elderly who are not computer savvy?
LINK: Ring said it’s the last straw; he’s moving out after the final month of his lease.
“It’s a violation of my privacy,” Ring added.
KSL’s calls to the attorneys for City Park Apartments were not returned Friday.
Zachary Myers, an attorney who specializes in tenant rights for Hepworth, Murray & Associates in Bountiful, said the contract addendum may not be fair to those who don’t have or are unable to create Facebook accounts.
“The biggest issue that I have with it is that it seems to be discriminatory against elderly individuals and disabled individuals who are unable to utilize an online presence such as Facebook,” he said
This is absolutely bizarre and a violation of human rights! An apartment complex in Salt Lake City, Utah left notices on doors that every resident must have a Facebook account, like the apartment complex on the account, and allow the complex to post photos of residents and their guests.
This is beyond bizarre. What if someone does not want a Facebook account, and what if they do not want pictures of themselves or their guests online?
What about someone who does not have a computer or the elderly who are not computer savvy?
LINK: Ring said it’s the last straw; he’s moving out after the final month of his lease.
“It’s a violation of my privacy,” Ring added.
KSL’s calls to the attorneys for City Park Apartments were not returned Friday.
Zachary Myers, an attorney who specializes in tenant rights for Hepworth, Murray & Associates in Bountiful, said the contract addendum may not be fair to those who don’t have or are unable to create Facebook accounts.
“The biggest issue that I have with it is that it seems to be discriminatory against elderly individuals and disabled individuals who are unable to utilize an online presence such as Facebook,” he said
6pm: Tenants fume over apartment complex’s new Facebook addendum
SALT LAKE CITY — Some tenants at a Salt Lake City apartment complex are fuming over a new lease agreement that requires tenants to “like” the complex on Facebook.
Tenants of the City Park Apartments told KSL that a “Facebook addendum” showed up taped to their doors Thursday night.
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.
The document also includes a release allowing the apartment to post pictures of tenants and their visitors on the page.
“I don’t want to be forced to be someone’s friend and be threatened to break my lease because of that,” tenant Jason Ring said. “It’s outrageous as far as I’m concerned.”
Ring said it’s the last straw; he’s moving out after the final month of his lease.
“It’s a violation of my privacy,” Ring added.
KSL’s calls to the attorneys for City Park Apartments were not returned Friday.
Zachary Myers, an attorney who specializes in tenant rights for Hepworth, Murray & Associates in Bountiful, said the contract addendum may not be fair to those who don’t have or are unable to create Facebook accounts.
“The biggest issue that I have with it is that it seems to be discriminatory against elderly individuals and disabled individuals who are unable to utilize an online presence such as Facebook,” he said.
Myers said that if a lease is already signed, a tenant may not be required by law to sign a late add-on.
He added that if something like an add-on appears and a tenant is not comfortable with it, the tenant should not sign it because once signed, the tenant is bound to the contract unless a court says otherwise.
