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Originally posted by HighOnAcid
It's really hard to find a place in Florida that has refundable application fees. They usually range from $35 - $50 depending on the location. They also have administrative fees they charge to do the searches. So all together it's about $75 of non-refundable charges just to get rejected. 
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Yeah, I see what you mean there. If it were me (and this is just my opinion of course) I would plead with the Manager or owner of the properties. I worked for several years (in a capacity I will not disclose) in a heavily finacially depressed city where this same problem exists. I sat in on many interviews that went the way you describe at the housing units. One in a hundred people or so would explain what they did, what treatment they recieved, and how they changed there life since the incident. Then, they just asked for a chance to prove themselves to the property managers and it worked everytime. Sometimes it takes just explaining things (which I'm sure he probably has) and making the Apt. Manager feel all warm inside and that gets the application approved locally (some have the power to overide the city's decision).
Good luck to him.