Horizon Management Group: For All Your Moldy Apartment Needs?

How much is a Tweet worth to you?  For Horizon Group Management LLC, one Twitter Tweet is worth $50,000.

That’s the amount of damages specified in a lawsuit against Amanda Bonnen, one of their tenants, after she complained about mold in her apartment via her Twitter account, abonnen (The account has been deleted at this time):

“Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s okay.”

In Cook County Circuit Court, Horizon Group Management filed suit, saying that the false and defamatory tweet, sent May 12, greatly injured their reputation as a landlord.

Horizon’s Jeffrey Michael filed the lawsuit to protect his family company’s reputation.

“We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization,” he said, noting that the company manages 1,500 apartments in Chicago and has a good reputation it wants to preserve.

Well, Jeff, we’re sure that now that everyone knows what a douchebags you and the folks at Horizon are, that great reputation will prevail intact. When this all ends badly for Horizon, will you explain how you had to destroy the company in order to save it?

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