Tenant recommendations -- Liability

[Michael B.]

I got a call from a landlord in another city yesterday asking about a young couple that rented from me for a while a few years back. They were great tenants and I gave a glowing recommendation.

But that got me thinking. Most companies don't give employment recommendations anymore. They're afraid they'll get sued because an employee says something that's no true, or at least not provably true. Nowadays about the only thing large companies will say is something like "John worked here from mm/dd/yyyy until mm/dd/yyyy."

Has anybody ever heard of landlords getting sued or threatened for giving bad reviews to tenants. Especially when the parting is acrimonious with fights over amount of damage, etc.

I've never heard of a landlord ending up with legal problems over giving a bad recommendation. Just wondering if anybody else has.