Twitter to be evicted from Colorado office over unpaid rent
Landlord used security deposit to cover $968,000 in rent after Elon Musk stopped paying them
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Your support makes all the difference.Elon Musk’s Twitter is set to be evicted from its office in Colorado after the social media platform failed to pay its rent, according to reports.
A judge signed an order on 31 May giving law enforcement 49 days to kick Twitter out of the office at 3401 Bluff Street in Boulder, Colorado, reported The Denver Post.
The company once had 300 employees at the 65,000sq-ft office, but it is unknown if anyone even still works there after sweeping job cuts made by the billionaire after he bought the company last October.
Last year, Twitter fired 87 employees at the Boulder, with another 38 voluntarily resigning, according to a November notice to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.
Twitter’s landlords filed a complaint for unpaid rent against the company on 12 May, with court papers stating that the platform leased four units in the building in February 2020.
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The landlord stated that a default notice to Twitter was ignored and they instead used a letter of credit deposited by Twitter as security for the offices to pay $968,000 in rent, the newspaper reported.
The landlord then asked Twitter to replenish the security deposit but says that the company ignored the request.
The platform was also sued last month by Boulder’s Avalanche Commercial Cleaning for around $93,500 for unpaid bills.
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