Room Selection Homesteading Tutorial 2018

1. ROOM SELECTION
Your step by step guide to
Homesteading

2. Criteria to Participate in the Homesteading
Process
To participate you must:
• Be a current term resident
• Complete your application and
• Pay any remaining balance on your student account.
If you do not meet these expectations, you will not be permitted to
participate.

3. PAY YOUR $300 Housing Deposit/Complete Housing Application
PRIOR to participating in HOMESTEADING, you will need to PAY your $300 HOUSING
DEPOSIT by following the below steps:
1. Simply log into http://my.hofstra.edu
2. Click on the "Navigation Menu" in the top left hand corner.
3. Click on the "Student Services" menu.
4. Click on "Student Payment Center" under General.
5. Click on "My Payment Center".
6. Select the "eDeposits" tab.
7. Select the term for which you are applying for (e.g., Fall 2017)
8. Select the type of deposit you want (i.e. Housing Deposit).
**Students paying by cash, check or money order must do so at the Student Financial Services Suite, 206 Memorial Hall.

4. Complete Your Housing Application
1) Log into http://my.hofstra.edu
2) Click on the "Navigation Menu" in the top left hand corner.
Click on Navigation Menu

5. Complete Your Housing Application
3) Click on “Student Services” Menu

6. Complete Your Housing Application
4) Click on the 'Residence Life" menu.

7. Complete Your Housing Application
5) Click on the "Residence Life Room Application“

8. Complete Your Housing Application
6)Select the term you are applying for(fall 2018) and then click
SUBMIT.
FALL 2018

9. Complete Your Housing Application
Indicate on your Housing Application ONE of the following:
• I wish to be Administratively Assigned
• I intend to Homestead
• I intend to be pulled in
• I do not wish to Homestead
Check ”Yes” only if you have not decided
to homestead your current room and
want Residence Life to assign you to a
space which they choose based on your
preferences.
Check ”Yes”-Staying in room” if
you are planning to homestead

10. Complete Your Housing Application
• Please verify all information you include on your HOUSING APPLICATION is ACCURATE(i.e. phone number).
• Indicate if you require an accessible room (students must be registered with the Student Access Services
office)
• Please review the descriptions of the residential communities including Themed Living Communities(TLC’s).
• Indicate your preference to reside in a Themed Living Community.
Verify Phone Number
Indicate interest in Themed
Living Community
Check if ADA room needed

11. Complete Your Housing Application
• Complete your housing preferences, EVEN IF you intend to homestead your
current space.
Your preferred roommate’s
information MUST be listed in
the first line.
Enter 1 additional person if you
are looking for a double.
Enter 2 additional people if you
are looking for a triple.
Enter 3 additional people if you
are looking for a suite.

12. ELIGIBLE TO HOMESTEAD?????
• You must confirm on your Housing Application that you are eligible to
HOMSTEAD your SPACE: This is what you will see if you
are not eligible to HOMSTEAD
your room. Rooms are not
eligible to homestead, such as
first-year spaces.
To be eligible to homestead
your space, your housing
application should look like this

13. Important Homesteading Information
• Rooms MUST be filled to CAPCITY. It is important that the student fill the space they are looking
to select with the proper number of people required for that room.
 a double needs two people,
a triple needs three,
a quad needs four,
a suite needs four, etc.
Indicates that the room is currently
full and no student can be pulled in.
Indicates current residents.

14. Important Homesteading Information
• Have your roommate list your name and Hofstra ID# on there application as well.
List roommate on the first
line, and then list suitemates.

15. Important Homesteading Information
• Roommates/Suitemates NOT returning to the room MUST release
their space on their housing application

16. How To Release a Space
• Roommates/Suitemates NOT returning to the room you are
homesteading, they must release their space by doing the following:
Log in to the Hofstra portal at “My.Hofstra.edu.
Click on the “Navigation menu” in the top left hand corner.
Click on the “Student Services” menu on the left hand corner.
Click on the “Residence Life” menu.
Click on the “Residence Life Room Application” under the Residence Life menu.
Select the term for which you are applying (e.g. 201809).
Scroll down to the link that indicates “NOT HOMESTEADING”.

17. Important Homesteading Information
• As a homesteader in a suite, in order to secure a particular
roommate, you MUST list that individual FIRST in the specific
roommate request section of the application.
The first person listed will
be your actual roommate.

18. Homesteading Pull in Process
• During the Homesteading Process students have the ability to pull
other students into their room if there is going to be a vacancy.
• For students living in Colonial Square or Nassau/Suffolk Halls, its
imperative that the student(s) being pulled into a vacant space
SUBMIT their Housing Application FIRST indicating their preferred
roommate and suitemates.

19. Homesteading Pull in Process
• Once all students being pulled in have updated their Housing
Applications the person(s) Homesteading should update their
Application indicating their preferred roommates and suitemates.
Indicates students being
pulled into the room.

20. Final Submission
• By clicking the “I Agree” button you are agreeing to “The Residential
Living Agreement”, “The Living Factor”, and “The Code of Community
Standards”.

21. Final Notification
• Once you hit the “Submit” button, Students will not have the ability
to access their Housing Applications to make any changes once they
have selected a room for the upcoming academic year.

22. Dining Services: Dining Plans
Click on Dining Service Application
to apply for meal plan

23. Dining Services: Dining Plans
Fall 2018

24. Dining Services: Dining Plans
1. Confirm your personal
information is accurate.
2. Select the meal plan of
your preference.
3. Submit your choice.
Notice: If you decline at
this time and do not
return to select a meal
plan, the minimum
plan will be selected
for you.

25. Final Notification
• All parties involved will receive a confirmation email to their Hofstra
Pride account within minutes of homesteading or being pulled into a
room/suite.

26. Homesteading Video