{"id":1716,"date":"2016-06-20T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T08:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2016-06-20T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T08:43:22","slug":"landlords-forced-facebook-likes-policy-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/landlords-forced-facebook-likes-policy-backfires.html","title":{"rendered":"Landlord\u2019s Forced Facebook \u2018Likes\u2019 Policy Backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The landlord of an apartment complex in the U.S. tried to force his tenants to become \u2018friends\u2019 on Facebook in a bid to increase the complex\u2019s popularity and gain extra exposure \u2013 presumably to attract more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.tenant_documents.html#watch-demo-anchor\">tenants<\/a>. Unfortunately the policy seriously backfired.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Facebook Addendum<\/strong><br \/>\nTenants living at the apartment complex were somewhat surprised to find piece of paper stuck to their door entitled \u2018Facebook addendum\u2019. The mysterious document purported to be an addendum to their apartment lease. It stated that all tenants were required to \u2018friend\u2019 the apartment complex on Facebook within five days or they would be in violation of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.basic_tenancy.html#watch-demo-anchor\">tenancy<\/a> agreement. The document also included a clause giving the landlord permission to post photos of tenants and their guests on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>As you might expect, tenants were outraged. Hundreds of current and former tenants flooded the apartment complex\u2019s Facebook page with negative reviews and angry comments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is it Even Legal?<\/strong><br \/>\nNews of the questionable \u2013 and probably illegal \u2013 policy soon spread like wildfire and random people off the internet joined in. Before long, the City Park Apartment\u2019s Facebook page had 860 one-star reviews and lots of irate comments, which included:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gestapo like enforcement of your new Facebook policy will not stand up in court\u201d and \u201cHave a nice day Nazi scum!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the tenants interviewed by a local news outlet summed up the fiasco nicely when he said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to be forced to be someone\u2019s friend and be threatened to break my lease because of that. It\u2019s outrageous as far as I am concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The landlord of an apartment complex in the U.S. tried to force his tenants to become \u2018friends\u2019 on Facebook in a bid to increase the complex\u2019s popularity and gain extra exposure \u2013 presumably to attract more tenants. Unfortunately the policy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/landlords-forced-facebook-likes-policy-backfires.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}