Your Landlord Can Blacklist You From Your Next Apartment — Even If They're the One Who Broke the Rules
Imagine applying for an apartment near campus, getting denied, and having no idea why. You paid your rent on time. You didn't damage anything. You gave notice. And yet somewhere in a database, your name is now attached to an "eviction" or a "debt owed" that either isn't true, isn't yours, or isn't the whole story.
That's not a hypothetical. It's exactly the kind of harm the Federal Trade Commission just took action over.