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I have been assigned a low log number for this and meanwhile, I am invited to see another housing connect apartment in queens. Should I wait for this and reject that or not. I am afraid I would get rejected for this if I accept the other place. Any thoughts!
Arrange to vie the apartment in Queens. You should keep trying with both lotteries.
It is not typical that you would be rejected if you accept the other place. Your low log # is good. However, if you do not qualify for one of the preference categories you are at a disadvantage. Log#s can be much higher than yours and if they have a preference qualification they will be moved in front of your low log#
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Do you live in Manhattan in Community Board 2?
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Originally Posted by Sabavoon
I am on the exact upper end on 80% and there is only two studios available there. and my log number is under 200.
Keep working towards the Queens building but do not ignore this one.
Do you live in Manhattan in Community Board 2? This is the area of the building. Lower Manhattan, mostly west side but not the Financial District. Putting aside Vision/Hearing, and Mobility, any person with a log# high or low that lives in Manhattan Community Board 2 has an advantage over your under 200 log number if you don’t live in Manhattan Community Board 2 but only until the 50% set aside has been filled.
This lottery has:
A percentage of units are set aside for:
2% Vision/Hearing (likely 1 unit)
5% Mobility (likely 1 unit
Preference for a percentage of units goes to:
50% Community Board Resident
5%. NYC Employee (likely 1 unit)
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Originally Posted by Sabavoon
I am on the exact upper end on 80% and there is only two studios available there. and my log number is under 200.
If you live south of 14th St, and north of Canal St, and west of 4th Ave & The Bowery then most likely you live in Manhattan Community Board 2. If you live there then you chances of success are greatly improved because you would go ahead of log #s lower than yours without CB2 preference. But even if you don’t live in CB2 a log number less than 200 is very good. Unfortunately, there are only 17 units total and you only seem to qualify for two units.
A bad outcome would be if the Hearing/Vision, and Mobility set aside preferences took each of the two studios but that is only a possibility not a certainty.
Really strange. I spent all week putting together and uploading some 23 documents to the dropbox account they gave me in their email that said they'd reached my log #.
Got the confirmation email last night and everything was received.
But today when I go on the NYC Housing Connect site it says in no uncertain terms, "The deadline to submit documents has passed and your application will be rejected."
I emailed and called them.
This makes me very nervous, because at minimum, the left hand is not talking to the right. And at maximum, I fear that the above rejection message may somehow be correct!
Really strange. I spent all week putting together and uploading some 23 documents to the dropbox account they gave me in their email that said they'd reached my log #.
Got the confirmation email last night and everything was received.
But today when I go on the NYC Housing Connect site it says in no uncertain terms, "The deadline to submit documents has passed and your application will be rejected."
I emailed and called them.
This makes me very nervous, because at minimum, the left hand is not talking to the right. And at maximum, I fear that the above rejection message may somehow be correct!
I'm pretty sure that's what happens automatically on Housing Connect once the deadline is reached if there aren't docs there. You should be fine because the marketing company has your documents!!
I think it depends who you're working with, but the one time I've been contacted and submitted docs, the rest of the process moved to just working with the marketing company over e-mail/phone and was only getting some automatic messages from Housing Connect. If your docs are in a dropbox for the company then you should be good to go because they're the ones controlling the process right now and they themselves send the docs to ny housing dept once they approve the docs, so you shouldn't need to do much with Housing Connect now.
I'm pretty sure that's what happens automatically on Housing Connect once the deadline is reached if there aren't docs there. You should be fine because the marketing company has your documents!!
Such a relief! Thank you, maddy962!
The marketing company also emailed me back after I posted, to inform me that my application was OK.
Log # in the 3,XXX range, no preferences. Won't hold my breath with only 17 units up for grabs but good luck to those with low log numbers and/or preferences!
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Any thoughts!
Do you live in Manhattan in Community Board 2?
