2021 Stuytown lottery (Rose, Hope: where is, how often, Latin)

[alacritousalpaca]

Originally Posted by Family0609

They use obligo and my understanding is that it that monthly fee is for the life of your tenancy if you decide to do that. It says it is not a payment toward the deposit it is a permanent monthly payment

I can confirm this is true. There's no option to switch to a security deposit later, from what I was told, so it's strongly advised not to do this.

Originally Posted by markienyc

Congratulations!! And that is indeed wonderful news! We had very different mornings as I just received an email from the lottery notifying me of our 'disqualification' for: Information not received within the time frame required.

I have to assume it's in error, as I had everything in within the 10 days and even have an email from Skylar saying they had gotten everything and asking what size apartment were we going for and did we have any pets. I forwarded them that email as well as my response. That was exactly one month ago and no one has reached out to me for any more documentation.

Has this happened to anyone else? I guess my biggest fear (apart from not being able to resolve this and being 'truly' disqualified) is that we have not been moving thru the process at all for some reason and now are going to the back of the line. I took the attitude of hands off and leaving it to fate and the universe, not calling or emailing to check and now I'm wondering if that was a colossal error in judgement. Could really use some positive bucking up here. I tried calling the number but had to leave a message.

This happened to me too, last summer, and at least a handful of other people have reported it happening to them too in this thread. Just document your appeal (i.e., save a copy of the appeal email you sent) and keep following up. I appealed and it took them a couple of months to acknowledge it but they eventually did. I was never able to reach anyone on the phone but I forwarded my appeal email every couple of weeks and said something like "please confirm..." Everything worked out in the end, so I'd say don't panic if you can't reach them on the phone, as long as you've sent in an appeal by email!

[yaya24]

Originally Posted by griftag

For those who are recently receiving approval / contact by the office, what size apartment have you been approved for? Curious if there's been any movement with the 1BRs in the past couple of weeks?

I can’t speak for 1 bedroom but all I can’t say is that I was the last one receiving an offer last week. After me, they quickly realized that laws are changing as of Oct 1st and they are not sure yet what increase they should apply on the rent 3.25% or 5%.
They are only sending offers if they find a unit where you can move in before oct 1st…
My guess is that in the next couple of days, you will see many people getting offers. Basically many have already been assigned apt, but their offer won’t be presented to them until Stuytown figure out the increase.

@tpnyc- when it comes to your credit check, if the leasing agent have your file, that means you passed it.

When I asked her if I could re-freeze my credit. She said yes, she wouldn’t have made me the offer if my credit had not been check. My file would haven’t even land on her desk….

[yaya24]

Originally Posted by yaya24

I can’t speak for 1 bedroom but all I can’t say is that I was the last one receiving an offer last week. After me, they quickly realized that laws are changing as of Oct 1st and they are not sure yet what increase they should apply on the rent 3.25% or 5%.
They are only sending offers if they find a unit where you can move in before oct 1st…
My guess is that in the next couple of days, you will see many people getting offers. Basically many have already been assigned apt, but their offer won’t be presented to them until Stuytown figure out the increase.

@tpnyc- when it comes to your credit check, if the leasing agent have your file, that means you passed it.

When I asked her if I could re-freeze my credit. She said yes, she wouldn’t have made me the offer if my credit had not been check. My file would haven’t even land on her desk….

*my size unit was 2 bedroom at Stuytown towards ave C… I can’t quite remember the details but the leasing agent mentioned being a nice location as she lives in the same unit where my apt is…

[sunblasts]

Hi guys. Thanks for this very helpful thread.

Gonna be honest, my log number was so high (#88xx) that after I received it, I basically disregarded the entire lottery and forgot I had even applied. When they emailed me last week it was a complete shock... anyway.

Here's my personal timeline...

8/4 - asked to submit documents
8/9, 10:10 AM - documents sent
8/9, 10:50 AM - received email from Syed confirming document receipt: "Since you are the sole applicant, you qualify only for a one-bedroom unit. We are currently low on one bedroom units. As a result, we are placing you on our one-bedroom hold list. When a unit becomes available and we reach your log number, you will be contacted."

...so looks like there still isn't movement on the 1BRs. I seriously doubt they'll reach my number before the lottery ends, but I guess you never know.

(Since Syed is the person who emailed me, does that mean that he is my specialist? Or am I not assigned a specialist until I'm off the hold list?)

[macnyc2003]

Leases that take effect after Oct. 1 will incorporate a 3.25% increase on one-year leases, and 5% if a two-year lease is selected.

So I don't understand the confusion between 3.25% and 5%. It just depends on what the resident chooses.

[markienyc]

Originally Posted by jennyprnyc

Omg am so sorry! But you should be able to fight this with documented proof that you submitted the paperwork. We must remember they are dealing with many applications, and confusion can happen. When I submitted my paperwork on July 11th, I only followed up once two weeks later requesting if I should re-send the paperwork un-zipped as my original paperwork was sent in a zip file, and I have read pages upon pages in this forum that they did not allow this. I didn't receive a response back until August 4th requesting two bank statements so I figured the paperwork was good to go. I hope you are able to fight this!

Originally Posted by alacritousalpaca

I can confirm this is true. There's no option to switch to a security deposit later, from what I was told, so it's strongly advised not to do this.



This happened to me too, last summer, and at least a handful of other people have reported it happening to them too in this thread. Just document your appeal (i.e., save a copy of the appeal email you sent) and keep following up. I appealed and it took them a couple of months to acknowledge it but they eventually did. I was never able to reach anyone on the phone but I forwarded my appeal email every couple of weeks and said something like "please confirm..." Everything worked out in the end, so I'd say don't panic if you can't reach them on the phone, as long as you've sent in an appeal by email!

Wow - what a 1 day roller coaster! So yesterday I received the disqualification email, and went into full on panic / anxiety mode. I had not contacted anyone via phone or email since receiving the receipt of documents email a month ago, and I more than made up for it in the last 24 hours. Calling over and over to reach someone, leaving numerous voicemails with both the general number and my specialist, copious emails, stopping by the lottery office, and finally today writing a long appeal and backing it up by resending all of the materials with the time stamp of when I originally got them in.

Just received this from my specialist:

"Hello Mark:

I've received your documentations. It was a system error from our end. You are not DQ'd. Please disregard that. I will be starting on your file this week, If I need anything else from you. I will contact you.
No further action is required at this time."

So yay! Back on track and I can put down the bag I was hyperventilating into. Thanks for the help and advice! This group is invaluable.

[mycatjunior]

So happy for you @markienyc!!! Though I gotta say, they seem pretty heavy handed with these accidental DQ’s. Just trying to keep us on our toes, I guess.

As far as the rent increase/Oct 1 issue, that’s good info to know. It will be interesting to see how that affects the rent amounts being offered. Of course, moving in before Oct 1st would be literally no problem, we have been ready to move YESTERDAY ever since we got the initial email. Lol.

[531PCV]

Originally Posted by markienyc

Wow - what a 1 day roller coaster! So yesterday I received the disqualification email, and went into full on panic / anxiety mode. I had not contacted anyone via phone or email since receiving the receipt of documents email a month ago, and I more than made up for it in the last 24 hours. Calling over and over to reach someone, leaving numerous voicemails with both the general number and my specialist, copious emails, stopping by the lottery office, and finally today writing a long appeal and backing it up by resending all of the materials with the time stamp of when I originally got them in.

Just received this from my specialist:

"Hello Mark:

I've received your documentations. It was a system error from our end. You are not DQ'd. Please disregard that. I will be starting on your file this week, If I need anything else from you. I will contact you.
No further action is required at this time."

So yay! Back on track and I can put down the bag I was hyperventilating into. Thanks for the help and advice! This group is invaluable.

congrats

[claire18]

Hi guys,

What's the current wait on a 2 bedroom apartment?
Also, if the wait gets long (a couple of months) how often do they ask for updated documents and which documents in particular?

Thanks!

[macnyc2003]

Documents "age out" after 120 days. That's all I know.