Defective Repiping in Some Apartments Didn't Bar MCI Rent Hike

January 24, 2015

LVT Number: #25927

Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on water and gas repiping. The DRA ruled for landlord but exempted 13 apartments from the rent increase due to defects in the repiping to those apartments. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the exemption of the 13 apartments showed that the entire repiping job was defective. But the fact that a limited number of tenants had problems with the installation didn't otherwise bar the rent increase. The defective repiping showed up in only 14 percent of the 92 apartments. 

Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on water and gas repiping. The DRA ruled for landlord but exempted 13 apartments from the rent increase due to defects in the repiping to those apartments. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the exemption of the 13 apartments showed that the entire repiping job was defective. But the fact that a limited number of tenants had problems with the installation didn't otherwise bar the rent increase. The defective repiping showed up in only 14 percent of the 92 apartments. 

245 East 21st Street: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. TC430095RT (11/26/14) [2-pg. doc.]

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