--- title: "Judge Tells Cops to Evict Twitter Office Over Unpaid Rent" description: "Following multiple defaults on rent and a failure to even respond to its landlord, it looks like Twitter's Colorado HQ is kaput." date: "2023-06-16" modified: "2023-06-16" authors: - name: "Maggie Harrison Dupré" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/mharrison" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/judge-cops-evict-twitter-colorado" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "elon musk" - "social media" - "the digest" - "twitter" --- # Judge Tells Cops to Evict Twitter Office Over Unpaid Rent ![Following multiple defaults on rent and a failure to even respond to its landlord, it looks like Twitter's Colorado HQ is kaput.]() *Electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks to another CEO before a roundtable during the 6th edition of the "Choose France" Summit at the Chateau de Versailles, outside Paris on May 15, 2023. Since 2018, the Choose France Summit seeks to promote France's economic attractiveness and encourage international investment across the country and brings together hundreds of leaders from the largest multinational corporations. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) \Image: LUDOVIC MARIN via Getty Images \* ## Strike Out Twitter's Colorado HQ looks like it's kaput. Following defaults on rent, court documents reveal that on May 31, a judge for Boulder County's district court called for law enforcement to kick the Elon Musk-owned social media company out of its Boulder offices, [*The Denver Post* reports](). It's a bad look for the [extremely anti-remote-work Musk](), who probably could've saved a *lot* of money if he'd just let at least one or two of Twitter's properties go — as opposed, of course, to rolling out miserably unprofitable new subscription features on his crumbling app while rent-dodging and forcing his employees to work in [smelly, janitor-less buildings](). ## Hearing Crickets According to the *Denver Post*, the court documents indicate that Twitter's now-former landlord officially filed an official complaint against the social media firm — which moved into four suites in the building in question back in 2020 — on May 13, after months of unanswered calls to cough up a rent check. It's unclear when Twitter first defaulted, but according to the report, court documents say that after it failed to respond to at least one default notice, the landlord turned to a "letter of credit deposited by Twitter for $968,000." But that line of credit ran dry at the end of March, and on April 4, the landlord reportedly asked Twitter to restock it. Weeks later, on April 28, the landlord finally gave Musk and his platform an ultimatum: cough up or forfeit the offices. Per the report, Twitter once again failed to respond. And when the return date of the summons finally came, no one from Twitter even bothered to show up, let alone send any answers. ## More Where That Came From It's worth noting that this far from the first time Musk has [stiffed Twitter's vendors](). At the time of a [*Bloomberg* report published last month](), Musk owed roughly $10 million to various corporate contractors, many of which noted that they relied on their Twitter contracts to support themselves as smaller businesses. It's not often that you cheer for a landlord, but in this case, we gotta hand it to him. Getting a judge to evict a company owned by the [world's richest conspiracy theorist]() by way of police force is impressive, and here certainly seems more than warranted. Here's hoping that everyone else waiting for their Twitter checks gets their day in the Sun, too. **More on Twitter's misplaced checkbook:** [*Broke Boy Elon Musk Struggling to Pay Bills*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've reported extensively on the rise of AI as a cultural and business force shaping the media industry, and more broadly how those dynamics are changing how we all consume and share information and relate to one another. I'm also fascinated by public health policy and ethics, the role of emerging tech in politics and governance — and the powerful people and forces at those intersections — climate change, and the environment. My investigation on Sports Illustrated's use of AI-generated authors with fictional biographies won a 2024 Mirror Award for "Best Story on Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and the Media" from Syracuse University's SI Newhouse School, I contributed to Niemen Lab's 2025 Predictions for Journalism series, and I've discussed my work for Futurism during appearances on NPR, CNN, the BBC, the CBC, and more. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I played Division I field hockey for the Minutewomen as a midfielder. Since then, I've lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and Manhattan, New York. I spend my free time running, reading, perusing archival fashion, and searching for the world’s best negroni. I also have a debonair tuxedo cat, Westley, who's named after "The Princess Bride." ### Author social links [Bluesky]()