Apartment Complex Threatens To Fine Residents $10k For Bad Reviews

Apartment Complex Threatens To Fine Residents $10K For Bad Reviews

Ever wrote a bad review about somewhere you’ve lived? Well one Florida apartment complex is set to make their residents pay a high price for any anti-praise.

via Huffington Post

They might be the landlords from hell, but you’re not allowed to complain about them.

A Florida apartment complex is under fire after management forced new tenants to sign a “social media addendum” that threatened a fine of $10,000 if they gave the place a bad review online, Ars Technica reports. The addendum, which went viral Tuesday after the Windermere Cay complex in Winter Garden started handing it out, also forces tenants to sign away their rights to any photos, reviews or other material about the complex posted online:

“Applicant will refrain from directly or indirectly publishing or airing negative commentary regarding the Unit, Owner, property or the apartments,” the addendum reads. “This means that Applicant shall not post negative commentary or reviews on Yelp!, Apartment Ratings, Facebook, or any other website or Internet-based publication or blog.”

Before Tuesday, few people had reviewed Windermere Cay. By the end of the day, however, a lot of people had reviewed the place. Things are not going well for the apartment complex online.

On Yelp, reviews have been flooding in from people who are either disgusted by the contract or think the whole thing is a joke. Most of them said they weren’t tenants. One of Windermere’s five-star reviews, for instance, comes from “Adolf H.” who hailed the complex for having “my kind of management.”

Do you think this is plan is too much?