yes and in some states you pay for your background check to buy a gun, still this is comparing apples to oranges, they're both fruit, the similarity ends there. reader service is a volunteer job, and it generally accepted that one doesn't have to pay fees for a volunteer job, otherwise you discourage anyone from ever offering to do the job. > Hi, it's Maurice. I don't have a problem with a background check, due to > the fact that people have been killed, here in the US, over the years. The > business of having the reader pay for the background check is proper. In > most apartment rental situations, the person pays for the background check.