Re:A restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews
by randycupertino on Sunday June 09, 2019 @09:31PM
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This is actually a pretty common strategy in Property Management. Multi-unit buildings owned by REITs are known to build this into their marketing plan. Sooner or later enough tenants will complain and the negative reviews will make it hard to fill empty units, so just "rebrand" and change your name. Common strategy by Essex Properties in the Bay Area.
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Re:A restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews
by dontbenebby on Sunday June 09, 2019 @11:52PM
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Interesting. This wasn't a building though, it was a condo owned by a private landlord who contracted out management since they had a job that took them overseas.
(So you can't type in the address of the building and see bad reviews under different name for same addy. To be fair, the condo board and neighbors were nice, but as a renter I can't do repairs or replace broken appliances.)