Lobby/Vestibule Renovations Don't Qualify for MCI Rent Hikes

Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes. The DRA ruled in part for landlord, granting an increase for building entrance doors but disallowing claimed costs related to new stone flooring and saddle, new lobby flooring, a shallow depth floor closer, lobby wall marble, and a marble intercom panel. Landlord appealed and lost. The DHCR found that the other work was mere cosmetic improvements or ordinary repairs and maintenance, or work undertaken to modernize the lobby/vestibule area. It was long-standing DHCR policy that such lobby or vestibule renovations didn't qualify for MCI increases. 

Greystone Properties 81 LLC: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. IN430015RO (5/15/24)[5-pg. document]