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Let Me Guess: Gay Couple Rejected by Board?

Started by CoopHell
over 3 years ago
Posts: 14
Member since: Sep 2009
Discussion about 40 East 88th Street #11C
This building is a trip. If you buy an apartment here you better expect to die in it because this board sucks.
Response by Admin2009
over 3 years ago
Posts: 380
Member since: Mar 2014

If the Board sucks .... why did they apply ?

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Response by CoopHell
over 3 years ago
Posts: 14
Member since: Sep 2009

Probably because they liked the apartment. Sounds like you haven't heard how co-ops work, but boards don't advertise that they're bigoted and make racist or homophobic denials. First you get to go through the months-long, invasive and humiliating process of providing them your entire life history and tell them things about your finances that your best friends don't even know, and then they deny you without having to explain why.

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Response by CyJackX
over 3 years ago
Posts: 13
Member since: Jan 2014

You made a post about this 5 months ago. Has something new developed?

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Response by CoopHell
over 3 years ago
Posts: 14
Member since: Sep 2009

No, my original comment was about another apartment in this building. My case is still working its way through the NY Department of Human Rights, so I've been keeping an eye on this building to see if other contracts have "fallen through," and it didn't take long to find another one that did. I guess a leopard never changes its spots. I'd be curious to hear from the person whose contract "fell through." Co-op boards don't have to give reasons for their denials but that doesn't mean the victims can't talk to one another.

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