Increase Properly Based on 32 Rooms

(Decision submitted by James R. Marino of the Manhattan law firm of Kucker & Bruh, LLP, attorneys for the landlord.) Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of a new roof/parapet. The DRA ruled for landlord, and tenants appealed. They claimed that since landlord's eight-room office was in the building in which the roof was installed, the rent hike should be based on 40 rooms, not 32. The DHCR ruled against tenants. There was no proof that landlord had an office in the building. And there were, in fact, 32 rooms in the building, not 40.

Eichhorn: DHCR Adm. Rev. Dckt. No. MB130062RT (2/11/03) [2-pg. doc.]