By now everyone from The Wall Street Journal to the Sun-Times has reported Horizon Realty Group’s lawsuit against a tenant over an allegedly defamatory post on Twitter.
The Sun-Times quotes Horizon’s Jeff Michael as saying that “We’re a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization.” The lawsuit was filed, according to the Sun-Times, because Horizon “has a good reputation it wants to preserve.”
It’s been several years since I researched Horizon, but at that time I opined it was “as bad as it gets” and reported on a tenant describing a Horizon property as a “hell hole.” Here are some of my other posts on Horizon:
– Another landlord horror story
– Horizon threatens to arrest me
– Horizon Realty Group sinks even lower
With his “sue first” statement, Jeff Michael may have done more harm to Horizon’s reputation than anyone else possibly could.