No MCI Rent Hike for Heat Timer

Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of a new boiler/burner and a heat timer. The DRA ruled for landlord in part, approving the boiler/burner costs but disallowing the heat timer. Landlord appealed and lost. The heat timer included in landlord's contract for the MCI was never installed. Landlord and the contractor had agreed instead to install a better quality timer at an additional cost eight months later. The second heat timer duplicated costs already included in the MCI and was properly disallowed.

334 East 90th Street: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. VG410055RO (2/18/11) [2-pg. doc.]