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It was all a lot of nonsense arguing and posturing, the owner currently filed an unlawful detainer on us and we were literally packing (or trying to except being stopped by the manager) to leave. The part of interest is we kept pleading and yelling for him to just leave us alone so we can move out while trying to walk away from him. This prompted him to say, and I quote: "I will ****ing hunt you down and be your worst nightmare."

What I have read basically is if this particular recording is found to be unlawful and made public or otherwise cause damages I can get in trouble.
It was probably legal to record the conversation under the circumstances you describe.

See CA Penal Code 632 (c) which "excludes a communication made in a public
gathering or in any legislative, judicial, executive or
administrative proceeding open to the public, or in any other
circumstance in which the parties to the communication may reasonably
expect that the communication may be overheard or recorded."

http://law.onecle.com/california/penal/632.html

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I want to make the current owner of the property aware of how his property manager is going about doing his business.
Forget it. The owner isn't going to care a bit about what a tenant says his manager is doing. Trust me on that. He pays the manager to do what it takes to keep a tenant in line so he doesn't have to be bothered with it. Since you are under an "unlawful detainer" your credibility will be less than zero anyway.