Property Manger Background Check Negligence

[Brian Anderson]

Hello,

I hired a property manager to list, find tenants and manager the property.  The property manager brought us a person and showed they had 800 credit score.  I selected them and we ended up having to evict them.  They did over $10K in damage as well as missed out of 6 months of rent. 

I have been informed that the tenant may have provided a falsified credit report.  The property manager was paid to vet the tenant.  However, went I went back and looked at the paperwork the application was filled out on March 15th and the credit report was from March 7th.  If that is the case the property manager did not run the persons credit and only provided the falsified credit report that was provided to them.

If this is in fact what happened am I able to go after the property manager for negligence?