Landlord Didn't Prove Cost of Rewiring

Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on building-wide rewiring. The DRA ruled against landlord based on insufficient documentation. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that it couldn't obtain from its bank the additional proof of payment requested by the DRA. But the checks submitted by landlord didn't show the building owner as being the holder of the account on which the checks were drawn, and some of the copies showed dates within the cancelation marks which pre-date by several years the issuance date written on the front the checks. Landlord failed to sufficiently document the cost of the MCI, so its application was properly denied.

319 West 105th Street: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. VG430049RO (1/12/12) [2-pg. doc.]