What will happen to an apartment lease application?
Read the lease and the document you signed agreeing to the background check. Without those, its impossible to say for sure. However, usually the lease is conditioned on a satisfactory background and/or credit check. That means if you dont pass, then you have no lease. Often, the money that you paid for the background and/or credit check is done. The landlord used that to pay for the checks. And that should be indicated somewhere on the documentsmost likely on the document authorizing the checks. On the other hand, if you paid a security deposit, first months rent, etc., all that should be refunded to you. The final authority, though, is the paperwork you signed.