Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Georgia

If you sign a lease for an apartment, and it's mandatory that you have a guarantor for the apartment, and you submit the guarantor information to the apartment complex AFTER you have signed the lease but based on their credit history, you are declined for the apartment, are you still obligated to pay the rent for the apartment even though you were not the one who backed out of the lease, and instead was declined for the apartment altogether. Wouldn't that rule the lease as null and void? And, shouldn't guarantor information be processed prior to allowing the tenant to sign the lease, if their credit history and income is the primary income that the apartment complex uses in order to determine whether or not you are financially eligible for the apartment?


Asked on 5/18/11, 8:21 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Scott Riddle Law Office of Scott B. Riddle, LLC

Posting a lot of vague "if" questions does not help you get a meaningful answer, unless you want "maybe/maybe not." What is important is facts. If you want a meaningful response, post the simple facts of what happened. However, either way, no one here has the documents (and you did not tell us exactly what they say about the issues you mention).

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Answered on 5/18/11, 8:33 am


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