Check Requisition Forms Don't Prove Cost of Work

August 31, 2003

LVT Number: 16805

Tenant complained of a rent overcharge. Landlord claimed that it made individual apartment improvements before tenant moved in. The DRA ruled for tenant and disallowed some of the 1/40th costs submitted by landlord. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord submitted only check requisition forms for some costs, including a $7,000 consultation fee. Landlord's check requisition forms alone, without invoices or canceled checks, are insufficient to prove payment of claimed costs.

Tenant complained of a rent overcharge. Landlord claimed that it made individual apartment improvements before tenant moved in. The DRA ruled for tenant and disallowed some of the 1/40th costs submitted by landlord. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord submitted only check requisition forms for some costs, including a $7,000 consultation fee. Landlord's check requisition forms alone, without invoices or canceled checks, are insufficient to prove payment of claimed costs. The DRA gave landlord several chances to submit additional documentation of the disallowed costs, but landlord didn't do so.

Yorkroad Assocs./Mayerhauser Realty Inc.: DHCR Adm. Rev. Dckt. No. RG410007RO (8/29/03) [6-pg. doc.]

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