Rent Frozen Due to Missing Rent Registration

September 30, 2011

LVT Number: #23678

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge. The DRA found no overcharge, but froze tenant's rent at the level in effect on the base date four years before tenant's complaint was filed based on landlord's failure to file annual registration statements for 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Landlord appealed, claiming that the late registrations were filed while the case was pending before the DRA, so the rent should have been restored. The DHCR ruled against landlord. Although landlord filed registration statements for 2008, 2009, and 2010, it still hadn't filed one for 2007.

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge. The DRA found no overcharge, but froze tenant's rent at the level in effect on the base date four years before tenant's complaint was filed based on landlord's failure to file annual registration statements for 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Landlord appealed, claiming that the late registrations were filed while the case was pending before the DRA, so the rent should have been restored. The DHCR ruled against landlord. Although landlord filed registration statements for 2008, 2009, and 2010, it still hadn't filed one for 2007. So tenant's rent remained frozen until that registration statement was filed.

199 Street, LLC: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. ZB210042RO (8/31/11) [2-pg. doc.]

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