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I was under the impression that nyc housing connect was all rent stabilized buildings....So how can your rent increase just because your income increased, that doesn’t make sense. I looked at my current lease (housing connect building) and the lease I just signed for another building on housing connect and neither one includes that statement.
Like I said my old lease didn’t say that but this new lease does. Idk if it has anything to do with which program the building was funded from my old building was a 421a private this one is a ELLA from HPD
I was placed on a waiting list for an apartment in April, I was contacted last month saying they have an apartment available now and to do a recertification process. Funny because I now make less but they calculated my income to be higher and told me I no longer qualify but asked if I would be willing to pay 350+ extra a month for a bigger apartment with amenities and if I declined it, I would not be allowed to get an apartment for about 2 years (this all sounded bogus to me) but any who, I said okay, they allowed me to go see the apartment, and they called me back and asked if I like it so that they can send my paperwork to the city... I said yes because I need it so bad and considered myself lucky to even be considered at all (this was two weeks ago)... 4 days after sending my file, they asked me to notarize one more paper that the city said was missing from my recertification packet, I sent it in the same day... Now, I’m just waiting and it makes me so anxious because I’ve been on waiting lists since 2017. Also I’m not sure if it is relevant but the apartment is not in the same building, it’s an older building that was on housing connect in 2008, and it’s actually been lived in, in the past.
I was under the impression that nyc housing connect was all rent stabilized buildings....So how can your rent increase just because your income increased, that doesn’t make sense. I looked at my current lease (housing connect building) and the lease I just signed for another building on housing connect and neither one includes that statement.
I thought all the buildings from housing connect was rent stabilized.
I was placed on a waiting list for an apartment in April, I was contacted last month saying they have an apartment available now and to do a recertification process. Funny because I now make less but they calculated my income to be higher and told me I no longer qualify but asked if I would be willing to pay 350+ extra a month for a bigger apartment with amenities and if I declined it, I would not be allowed to get an apartment for about 2 years (this all sounded bogus to me) but any who, I said okay, they allowed me to go see the apartment, and they called me back and asked if I like it so that they can send my paperwork to the city... I said yes because I need it so bad and considered myself lucky to even be considered at all (this was two weeks ago)... 4 days after sending my file, they asked me to notarize one more paper that the city said was missing from my recertification packet, I sent it in the same day... Now, I’m just waiting and it makes me so anxious because I’ve been on waiting lists since 2017. Also I’m not sure if it is relevant but the apartment is not in the same building, it’s an older building that was on housing connect in 2008, and it’s actually been lived in, in the past.
So technically it was not the waiting list for that particular building. It sounds like a waitlist that the property management comprised out of all the waitlist participants and try to fill them in wherever. Sounds like Wavecrest. So the whole thing about 2 years is a management rule and not a housing connect rule.
I was placed on a waiting list for an apartment in April, I was contacted last month saying they have an apartment available now and to do a recertification process. Funny because I now make less but they calculated my income to be higher and told me I no longer qualify but asked if I would be willing to pay 350+ extra a month for a bigger apartment with amenities and if I declined it, I would not be allowed to get an apartment for about 2 years (this all sounded bogus to me) but any who, I said okay, they allowed me to go see the apartment, and they called me back and asked if I like it so that they can send my paperwork to the city... I said yes because I need it so bad and considered myself lucky to even be considered at all (this was two weeks ago)... 4 days after sending my file, they asked me to notarize one more paper that the city said was missing from my recertification packet, I sent it in the same day... Now, I’m just waiting and it makes me so anxious because I’ve been on waiting lists since 2017. Also I’m not sure if it is relevant but the apartment is not in the same building, it’s an older building that was on housing connect in 2008, and it’s actually been lived in, in the past.
So technically it was not the waiting list for that particular building. It sounds like a waitlist that the property management comprised out of all the waitlist participants and try to fill them in wherever. Sounds like Wavecrest. So the whole thing about 2 years is a management rule and not a housing connect rule. But congrats! Sounds like you got the apt!
So technically it was not the waiting list for that particular building. It sounds like a waitlist that the property management comprised out of all the waitlist participants and try to fill them in wherever. Sounds like Wavecrest. So the whole thing about 2 years is a management rule and not a housing connect rule.
Sounds about right. Supposedly I was contacted for the apartment that I was on the waitlist for, but somehow I ended up being put somewhere totally different, with a different rent amount. And thanks for letting me know it isn't a housing connect rule because it sounded like it was. FYI I'm still waiting on HPD.
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