LVT Number: #28087
The DRA granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of a new burner and new chimney liner. Tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that the chimney liner installation was untimely because it wasn't completed within the two-year period before landlord filed its MCI rent increase application. The DHCR noted that the installation of a chimney liner doesn't constitute an MCI unless the installation is related to and performed in connection with a qualifying MCI.