"Name Your (Compliance) Frustration"

It has been quite a while since my last blog posting, for which I apologize. By way of explanation, but not excuse, there hasn't been much "new" coming from HUD in the compliance arena.  

With summer just around the corner, many of you will be taking well-deserved vacations.  This provided the inspiration for a little online "game" that I am calling: "Name Your (Compliance) Frustration."

The "game" is fairly easy: All you need do is write in with the compliance-related issue that most frustrates you...makes you want to pull your hair out....makes you want to go somewhere and have an umbrella drink (with an ACTUAL umbrella in the glass rather than a toothpick with a colored piece of paper intended to resemble an umbrella).

So, go ahead and vent.  You can then enjoy your vacation and not have to give it any further thought.

I'll select the best submissions, keeping your names anonymous, and post them here.  At the appropriate time, I'll call for a vote and the submission with the most amount of votes wins.  

Yes, colleagues, this will be a compliance-oriented version of "American Idol."  You might think that analogy cute, appropriate, or pathetic and sad.  Regardless, let's start the conversation and have some fun with it.   

Comments

[Barbara Cisneros]

My compliance frustration is the Race & Ethnic forms that came with an expiration date so now anyone who completed the form after that date had to complete a new one. It is hard to explain to our residents why since their race has not changed. Then a new one came out with a 2011 expiration date followed by the current one with a 4/30/09 expiration date. Of course during a MOR we are dinged for this kind of thing and it looks like those who make up the forms are using something. Also no one uses the form or looks at it accept for the MOR. The form itself has not change except the date. Another thing is that residents do not have to complete the form which means that even if the information is used it is not complete. The only place were this is used is on TRACS and if they do not complete the form, TRACS won't accept a non answer so we have to fill it in which means we have to judge ourselves what race and ethicity they are.

[Jennifer Langdon]

I have a 202/8 and am confused about an adult child as a Live-In attendant. I know we count their income, but when doing the criminal screening, we are not to do a credit check at the same time. If this is the case, why do we count their income if they retain no rights to the apartment if the resident moves out?

[BJ Murphy]

We are a HUD Section 236 Elderly property. Do we need to use the EIV system since majority of our residents are retired and live off of social security.