r/nychousinglottery

I really didn’t expect this all to happen, I was shocked to tour and find it was just totally not the right place for me. Does this happen often? It really sucks to have poured so much time and energy into submitting documents to be left hating the unit. Do people take units even if they don’t like them just because it’s more affordable? Even though in this case it’s $150 more than I pay now.

Unit: 173 Tompkins Ave

Got selected in a NYC Housing Connect lottery, prepping for eligibility review. Had a normal salary for part of the year, then got laid off — been on unemployment since (benefits running low).

Worried underwriters will just annualize my current unemployment income, which could push me below the minimum threshold for the unit — even though my income for most of the year was well above it.

Anyone been through a mid-year income drop during eligibility review? Did they use a blended full-year figure or just annualize whatever your current income source is?

Let me know if anyone has info on this — trying to figure out if bringing full pay stubs + unemployment docs together actually helps.

Thank you!

I haven't been on the Reside website in a couple of months (I got discouraged and gave up trying for a little while). I just checked the website , and it looks completely different from before. Are they still doing rerentals? What happened to Open Table? What's going on? TIA!

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New Reside Rerental opportunity in Bed-stuy

EDIT: Closed

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I was recently contacted to tour a studio apartment re-rental in a building that I was on the waitlist for, but have changed my mind and am hoping for a one bedroom. If I turn down the studio apartment, will I still have a chance to be called for a future 1 bed opening in that same building?

just wanted to share this here, such an odd requirement in order to qualify for this specific building 💀

“70% of the units in the building are reserved for performing artists who live in NYC. The "artist" definition is a broad one, including performing artists, musicians and even stagehands and other entertainment-industry support staff. To qualify for artist housing, the head of each household must earn at least 50 percent of their income over the past three years in the entertainment industry."

I have lotteries I applied to in 2022 for example still in my pending listed as "applied". It annoys me to see my old applications with high log numbers and the lottery ended 3+ years ago.

Do folks withdraw from the old ones that clearly have occupants etc? Is there any favor to leaving it there? Curious what the recommended thing to do is. Thank you for any insight.

I’ve been applying for 5 years and finally got called/emailed back to submit docs for the lottery.

My husband and I are both new city/municipal workers so I’m guessing, we had a bit more of a chance to get picked for the second round. Anyways, my log # is 51xx. It seems like only people with really low log numbers get picked. Is that the case?

Thank you

Is it common for lottery units tenets to have to pay a monthly fee for washer and dryer in unit? Or to have to buy their own machines? Would love to hear people’s experiences!

My log number was 4xx. So I had a good shot from the get go. I applied, gave in all of my documentation and such. I was hit with a rejection letter because I made literally $500 too much and my current salary puts me in between all of the tiers, which should disqualify me.

I appealed their decision and my application is still under review yet today, I was messaged by somebody from Reside and was asked if I wanted to schedule an appointment to view a 1bdr tomorrow.

I’m confused because I was rejected and my appeal is still under review. Obviously I’m gonna go with it because, why not? Still, all of this put together makes me not want to get my hopes up in spite of all this.

In this an unusual situation or am I just overthinking things?

I got laid off about 3 months ago from tech and it’s pretty grim out there. There’s no prospect of finding anything in the near future. Would the lottery consider my income from last year, what I made so far this year or none of it?
Thank you!

Hello everyone is it okay to provide rental history from a rental outside of nys to prove good rental history even though you are still considered a resident or is it better to provide a credit check ???