With all the internal turmoil that's been happening with Twitter over the last few months, the last thing the company needs is a lawsuit. But last week, the landlord of Twitter's office space in San Francisco filed a lawsuit, claiming the company has failed to pay its rent for several months.
On behalf of the Hartford Building on 650 California Street, which houses one of Twitter's offices, Columbia Property Trust filed the suit. They claim that Twitter owes the building $136,260 in rent.
The landlord, identified as Columbia Reit - 650 California, sent Twitter a notice about past rent due back on December 16th of 2022.
For a groundbreaking $44 billion, Musk became Twitter's owner and CEO. He quickly began making changes to the platform's staff, which resulted in mass layoffs.
The Seattle Twitter offices have closed, and the New York Post reports that security and janitorial services have been cut in several locations, including the New York and San Francisco offices.
Several reports have been released stating that Musk has been finding different ways to cut costs as a result of lost revenue. In the months since Twitter's sale, Musk has laid more employees off and recently ordered key servers to be shut down.
In addition to not paying its rent, Twitter has delayed payments to vendors such as accountants. On top of all that, a separate lawsuit had previously been filed for $200,000 in unpaid chartered flights for Musk when he first took over.
After purchasing the website, Musk became the first ever man to lose $200 billion.
After launching a Twitter poll in December asking users to decide his fate as CEO, Musk agreed to step down once he finds a suitable replacement.
