can my landlord bad mouth me to other landlords

By brian sample

I lived at white rock village in el dorado hills, ca. The apartments are owned by mercy housing but I would like to tell everyone that there is no mercy when it comes to dealing with the property manager. I lived there for almost a year with my wife and my five daughters who are 8yrs, 5yrs, 3yrs, 2 and 1 years of age. We decided to move out after getting numerous notices which were false, one of the notices said there was heavy foot traffic and police being called to my apt, had the management checked the info given to them they would have seen no police were ever called to my apt and very few friends came by as I worked full time and my wife works full time night shift. Anyways after false info and new rules for all tenants we decided to move to a more family like complex. I gave my 30 days notice to the manager and told her I would clean up as best i could and fix  whatever had to be fixed. She came by to do an inspection 3/5 days after i gave my notice and she was going to walk thru and let me know what i could fix or touch up to make sure I wouldnt owe any money. the carpets were being replaced so all we had to do was clean up and fix any nicks in the walls which i would also paint over if needed. everything went well during the walk thru. I moved out 3 days b4 i was supposed to but didnt hand in the keys as my friend and I were going to clean the apt and touch up etc. 2 days after i moved out I went to white rock at 7am with my friend and my old apt had been broken into and was spray painted and some vandalism, I called the police and made a report and waited for management to show up. The manager as usual was very rude and would not listen to a word and in front of people working in the office and some residents told me that she thought i was the one who did the stuff to the apt, when i told her she was wrong she repeated it and said i probably did it for pay back. I was very upset and raised my voice as she has no right saying this to me when its false as I have never given her any reason to think of me as a hoodlum. Infact my mom has lived at the apts for yrs with my sister and 4 brothers and still lives there.5 times she told me she thought i did it

Anyways we were glad to move out of there and now we are looking for a bigger place for my kids and we filled out some applications, yesterday I got a call from the landlord who wanted to rent us a 4 bdrm home and he told me that he couldnt rent to us because the manger at white rock village told him that yes we paid our rent etc but when we moved  there was destruction to the apt. I told him what had happened and I have a copy of the police report if needed but it was too late. Does she have the right to bad mouth me especially when its false, please let me know as I am so upset at this woman and she continues to falsely accuse me of this

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