Housing Application

You must access your SJNY email account in order to gain access to eRezLife — our online housing platform.

Navigate to the eRezLife Homepage.

Make sure you are logged into Google Suite via your SJNY email address. This will be the only way you can properly access our portal.

Helpful Tips:

• To avoid running into errors, ensure you are only logged into eRezLife on one device and one tab or window.
• Ensure your browser is up to date, without any pop-up blockers, and your cookies and cache have been cleared.
• If the site has been inactive for some time, you may want to re-authenticate by logging back in instead of refreshing your eRezLife page.

Once logged in, click the green APPLY NOW. Answer the short application questionnaire, regarding your preferences. Please follow the information below.

Section 1: Review Your Profile Information

This section allows you to review information loaded from your profile in Colleague. If you find information here that does not match your current information, please follow the steps at the top of the application section to update this information.

Section 2: Emergency Contact Information

This section allows you to input both general emergency contact information and confidential emergency contact information.
Please note that your CONFIDENTIAL emergency contact is separate and apart from your GENERAL emergency contact information. Your CONFIDENTIAL emergency contact would only be utilized in the event you are ever considered to be a missing student.

In order to comply with the federally mandated Missing Student Protocol, “St. Joseph’s University, New York asks that students provide confidential emergency contact information for an individual to be contacted by University officials if a student is determined to be missing. Regardless of your age, St. Joseph's University, New York will abide by the federal mandate and notify a custodial parent or guardian if your health and safety are a potential issue, as in the case of a missing person’s report. Law enforcement authorities will also be notified by a representative from SJNY Security no later than 24 hours after the filing of the report.”

Section 4: About You & Your Roommate Preferences

This section lets us know about you and your roommate preferences.

Please make sure you, the student, are completing this section truthfully and openly as it does help us provide the best match possible when finding you a roommate.

Once you have completed each section in the application you should move on to the confirmation section.

You must open, read and agree to the attestation file that is included in the application before you submit your application. Once your application is officially submitted, there will be a pop-up box that will provide you with a confirmation number and indicate that a confirmation email was sent to the email account associated with your eRezLife account.

Go to “My roommate profile” on the blue task bar on the left side (or the drop-down menu if you are using a smart phone) and complete and turn on your profile. My roommate profile is a roommate search tool to help connect you with possible roommates.

If you are not requesting a specific person to be your roommate, but instead will allow Residential Life to utilize your preferences to match you with a roommate, simply exit the website.

If you are requesting a specific person to be your roommate follow these steps:

• Go to “Roommate Groups” on the blue task bar on left side (or the drop-down menu if you are using a smart phone) once you have submitted your application.
• If you have a roommate group pending, you will need to accept the invitation. There will be green check marks next to each person's name to confirm the group has been created.
• If you do not have an invitation waiting for you, select "Create new roommate group." Enter a group name and provide a potential roommate's SJNY email (you can only add a roommate who has completed the housing application) The potential roommate will receive an email invitation to be your roommate and will be viewable in their Roommate Group's section in eRezLife. They will have to accept the invitation as outlined above.
• If you follow all steps, you will be housed with the roommate requested, regardless of housing preferences.
• Note: Only one of you should create a roommate group. The other accepts the invite. If you both create a roommate group, the accounts will not be linked and the request will not be granted.

Once you complete your Housing Application, Residential Life staff can prepare to make a room assignment for you. Please check your SJNY email frequently for updates.