My husband and I applied for a townhome through Lancer Group Properties, paid a separate application fee ($33) each for the application. They denied us saying that the friend that applied with us was denied because of drug charges on his record. These charges were possession of drug paraphernalia a year ago. No actual drugs on his record. I asked if my husband and I could be approved on our own and they replied no because we had a poor rental reference from a previous landlord. We called that previous landlord and they said they had given us a good reference and that they would rent to us again if we are having problems finding a place. We had previously had legal problems with our previous landlord, but we were able to straighten things out outside of court and they made things right with us. Other than us threatening to sue them, there were no reasons for them to give us a poor rental reference. When I brought this up to Lancer Group Properties they then brought up that my husband had "drug charges" on his record. This made me furious with my husband until I read the report. The charges were from 2008. FIVE years ago, my husband had a possession of marijuana charge that was DISMISSED and a possession of paraphernalia charge. Since 2008, he has been working a job that gives him regular drug screenings and also does intensive background checks on the employees yearly, he has become an adult, he has gotten married and had a child. I feel that this company is giving us the run around of why they do not want to rent to us. I suggest not even wasting your time or money applying for one of their properties as they will find any reason to not rent to someone. I feel they want to deny my husband and me because our friends record came back not so clean. read more