Corporate Tenant Deregulated for Not Providing Occupant's Income Information

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant’s rent-stabilized apartment in 2008. Tenant answered and listed only the named corporate tenant as an apartment occupant. Tenant didn’t list any individuals and claimed that the total household income was less than $175,000 in 2006. The DRA notified tenant four times that his answer was insufficient, asked for personal income tax information from the apartment occupant, and warned tenant that he would be in default if he didn’t answer. The DRA then ruled for landlord, based on tenant’s failure to supply the required income verification information. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the corporation operated at a loss in 2008. But this was irrelevant, and tenant still didn’t supply the requested information.

Albert Fried & Co.: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. YA410050RT (4/15/10) [5-pg. doc.]