I'm curious if its legal for a landlord to require a security deposit right away after the background check completes in order to put you in the waiting list and not making the lease available prior to that requirement so that you can view it over before entering the pre-agreement. This is important because if you decide that you don't agree to the actual lease then you forfeit your security deposit! They claim that this is entitled to them because they won't advertise for that month the property you reserved in your name. I see that point, but the practice of not allowing you to see the full disclosure of the lease seems shady and should be illegal.