<human>: I'm getting ready to move into a place here in CA and the landlord contacted me to say that my past landlord said I was an unsatisfactory tenant. In my discussion with the CA landlord, apparently the MD landlord told him that I was high maintenance because I emailed a lot (there were often problems with appliances and in going over the emails, I always gave at least a week before following up to un-responded emails) and that I had my "big, menacing brother come and threaten her husband" on move out day. 

A back story to that: the lease was through the 1st, but they had another couple sign the lease that started the 1st. They wanted us to accommodate them, but we could not and her husband showed up at 10 am on the 1st and verbally assaulted us as we were moving out. I called my brother (who is 5'7" and maybe 150 lbs) as support as I was starting to get uncomfortable with the landlord standing over us as we're moving things and yelling. My brother calmly spoke with the landlord and the landlord seemed a lot more copacetic (he stopped yelling and was more calm). 

From what CA landlord has said, MD landlord has spoken non-truths and I am no longer eligible for the place. Is there anything I can do as the MD landlord's lies/defamation are preventing me from getting this place?

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<bot>: Old landlord told lies about me to new landlord and now new landlord won't rent to me. Anything I can do about old landlord lying?