<p>I hear that getting housing at LC for a transfer is near impossible. Is there any help in finding apartments nearby? I can't imagine that there is anything affordable.</p>
<p>Finding an apartment can be difficult. I just moved from Midtown West to the Upper West Side and my new rent is around $4,000/month. Before that, it was around $3,500/month.</p>
<p>Then there’s also this bizarre renting rule that says you (and your roommate if you have one) must earn an annual salary of 40x the monthly rent. So if you get a studio for $2,000 you need to earn $80,000 a year - or if you have a roommate, you must both earn $40,000/year. If you get a guarantor, like your parent, to pay the rent s/he has to earn 80x the rent - so $160,000/year - and have a paperwork to prove it.</p>
<p>I don’t know if all Manhattan apartments require this, but maybe I just got “lucky” and kept choosing the apartment complexes that do. It’s something to keep in mind.</p>
<p>You could find a cheap place in the Bronx for well under $1,000/month and just take the Ram Van to LC.</p>
<p>Hey Plattsburgh (you seem to be one of the few Fordham students on here), do LC kids get to choose their roommates? I saw that on the group page. </p>
<p>And what about RH kids?</p>
<p>After the 1st year you get to choose roommates, maybe even 1st year I’m not sure though. No idea how LC works but I’d presume it’d be pretty similar.</p>
<p>Are you still there?
And do you remember what it said on your housing request form first year?</p>
<p>I remember pretty much filling out what sort of interests you have as well as what type of person you are- clean/messy, studious/partier, etc. In the end the pairing is pretty random…actually, it’s not all pairs obviously, there are many triples and quads (Hughes is all quads). Tierney has a few quads as well and many triples. You’ll be fine…I became great friends with my roommates.</p>
<p>Hey collegebound91, I know what you’re talking about. On the Facebook page I, and a lot of other people have put up roommate finders/surveys and things like that, and a lot of people have paired up. Mr. Farrell and other current students have joined, so it would suck if they didn’t tell us we weren’t going to have any say in our roomies anyway. (Especially since I already have one haha) Wouldn’t mind a triple though; I’d actually prefer it, due to cost</p>
<p>As far as requesting roommates for freshman year, it works the same on both campuses. On your housing card that you receive over the summer, there should be a space where you can indicate a person that you would like to live with. Fordham tries to honor requests, but in order for ResLife to put two students together, both students MUST write the name of the other person they wish to live with on the housing cards.</p>