Absolutely free background checks do exist but it depends what you’re looking for and where the background check is done. Some states make it easy and free to look at criminal records and other make it very difficult and charge a fee. For example real estate records can be looked-up pretty much at any county appraisers website for free. But if you need criminal non-conviction records from states like California, Kentucky, New York, or New Mexico you wont get them because these state prevent certain records from being reported. So to get 100% free background check is possible in most area’s but in some cases it will depend on the record type and what regulations a particular state has regarding public access to these records.