Northrose Residences – East 161st Street & Third Avenue (good credit, tenant)

[Cinn421]

Originally Posted by BigLat

I called this morning and was told they haven't reached my number yet. Go Figure!!!!!

Oh heck, get outta town!! That's really crazy when we're both in the 100's at least we're not alone in this insanity lol. I'll wait to get a response to my email before I completely freak out from all the conflicting info.

[Cinn421]

Ok so she responded to my email but no real information was provided. I asked her if I should send her updated financials and she said yes. As far as the status of the log #s she just stated she would follow up with me as soon as she could.

[cindymarrero]

Originally Posted by Cinn421

Ok so she responded to my email but no real information was provided. I asked her if I should send her updated financials and she said yes. As far as the status of the log #s she just stated she would follow up with me as soon as she could.

that's so weird... I hope you get a call soon! (and that I get a call soon there after) LOL

[d116]

Hey Cin421, don't lose hope. I'm in the 100's too (interviewed in March) and was just called in to submit updated financial info.

[Cinn421]

Hi d116 thanks for the encouragement, not ready to give up yet. Lol. It does seem to me thou that the log# info is a little skewed when all of us 100's still haven't heard anything. It must be more than just log# order like Cindy said.

[Cinn421]

Well I can confirm there's no one living in 488 yet. I just passed thru there a little while ago and the entrance is still blocked. There's also no certificate of occupancy on the front of the building yet. Seems like no one will be moving in until at least September...

[CWalters718]

I also applied for this lottery. On the application I put my and my boyfriend's information but I read that we may be turned down because we are not married and have not lived together prior to applying for this lottery. Do any of you know if this is true or not?

[Cinn421]

Originally Posted by CWalters718

I also applied for this lottery. On the application I put my and my boyfriend's information but I read that we may be turned down because we are not married and have not lived together prior to applying for this lottery. Do any of you know if this is true or not?

I do not know definitively if it's true but here is the language from the HDC Marketing Guidelines. Good luck to you.

"QUALIFICATION AS A HOUSEHOLD

[LEFT]To balance the demand for affordable housing against the limited supply, HDC’s New
Housing Opportunities Program (New HOP)/Middle Income apartments are not intended
for “roommate situations” or other combinations of friends and/or distant relatives who
join together solely for the purposes of qualifying for such a housing opportunity.
Accordingly, for the purposes of HDC’s New Housing Opportunities Program (New
HOP)/Middle Income, a household shall be defined as “an immediate family or other
such configuration of persons who have a documented financial interdependence”. Aside
from immediate family members (spouses and parent/child combinations), other possible
households may document “financial interdependence” as follows:[/LEFT]


 Adult persons already living together as a household as may be formally

[LEFT]documented through current leases or current utility records identifying each


person residing at the same address;



 Adult persons who can document shared assets, such as shared bank accounts

reflecting each person’s name, going back at least one (1) year.



 Adult couples who are not married but who meet the criteria above or who can

document registration with The City of New York as a domestic partnership.
[/LEFT]

[Cinn421]

If anyone would like to read the guidelines for how the application and lottery process should work (for middle income developments) here is the link.

http://www.nychdc.com/pdf/developers/newhop/2008/NYCHDC%20Middle%20Income%20Marketing%20Guidelines% 202008.pdf (broken link)

[Nadige]

Well it looks like I may not get into those apartments cuz I did the samething and we don't live together. Besides if they are going to check both our credit we are definitlety disqualified because his credit is not so good. Oh well I will continue to look outside of the lotteries.