My question involves a background check in the State of: NY
We're in a part of the state that is very expensive - we have 2 young babies and the best we can afford right now is a 2 bedroom basement apartment for $1400 a month.
About a year and a half ago my husband and I had a huge fight, the upstairs neighbours called the police and because he was drunk and I was upset and we had scuffled, he was arrested.
He ended up pleading guilty to a violation of menacing conduct or something like that. I'm not even sure what the actual wording was. It was definitely a violation though. And an order of protection was put in place for 2 years, even though I requested them not to. There has been no other trouble before or after that in 7 years of marriage, it was a one-off. And he works for the State and has had his (social work) license renewed since then and I think they do checks.
Anyway, we have a wonderful opportunity, a lady in a retirement home wants to rent her house to us for $1000 a month. We had to submit to an employment-type background check for this - is this all going to show up? It's still at the daughter's discretion, I suppose, if they still want to rent to us, but we didn't admit to it up front because it asked if there had been any criminal convictions and there haven't, and it didn't ask anything under which an order of protection would fall.
I'm worried sick about this - we'll know on Monday probably. It's finally a chance to get out of crappy basements and into a house.

