My question involves a security deposit in the State of: Oklahoma
My room mate and I were looking to rent an apartment and thought that we had found a good one.
5/12/10 We turned in an application ($25.00 app fee each) and put down a security deposit ($225.00) to ensure that an apartment would be held for us. We were told that somebody would call us by Monday. And that it would be the end of May to first week in June when we could move in.
5/20/2010 Hadn't heard from the apartment complex yet so I called them. I was told that my room mate was going to need somebody to cosign for her. I told them that I would have to get back to them after talking to my room mate.
5/24/2010
I called the apartment complex back and told them that we were not going to take the apartment because she could not find somebody to cosign for her and was told that we would be forfeiting the security deposit. And then told that they would have worked with us by looking at past rental history and what not, I had not been told this previously.
We never signed a lease for the apartment only filled out an application. Do we have any legal right to demand our deposit back?

