PLEASE HELP ME. with this problem with a tenant from Hell!

[Lucy Stinson]

I'm wondering if anyone can help me with some advise. I have a tenant that just moved out, I had to evict her and her boyfriend, now they want to sue me for $7500. They say I had mold in my house that made them and their 2 kids sick. which is not true, they have some pictures that I don't know where they came from. I have 2 witnesses that can testify that I did not have mold in my addict. The AC handler leaked some without my knowledge and yes there was a small amount of water mold but not enough to make one sick and not the kind of mold that is black and you see in some homes.  They know I want to sell my house and I guess they think I'm going to have money to hand over to them. They left some damages to my house and the house smells so bad of cigarets that I'm having a hard time getting the smell out, since I've had to wait for the courts to order them out and then still had to wait for them to leave and now the time to repair my house, I haven't been able to put my house on the market. i have some texts that will help me some but I don't know because the courts side with tenants even when they are no good. The last text he wrote me saying that if I give them their deposit back ($1000.00) they will drop the law suit. their deposit covers the damages. But what he wrote, will that help me with my case. they are the tenants from hell. He knows how to work the system, he has had 7 or more evictions before. Can someone tell me if they know if people can actually get away with this crap?