No Proof Tenant Responded to Deregulation Application

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2010. The DRA ruled for landlord based on tenant's failure to answer the agency's notices requesting income verification. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that he answered the DRA's initial notice but later mistakenly ignored the DRA's follow-up notice that stated that no answer had been received from tenant. Despite specific instructions from the DRA, tenant didn't retain any proof of delivery of his claimed response, and offered no valid excuse for not answering the DRA's notices. Tenant's apartment was deregulated.

Russo: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. ZL410024RT (5/31/12) [5-pg. doc.]