Tenants Didn't File Objections to MCI Application, Despite Extensions

The DRA granted landlord's MCI rent increase application based on building-wide rewiring. Tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that they didn't receive a copy of the MCI application or a response from the DRA to their extension request. But the DRA sent tenants a notice of landlord's MCI rent increase application on March 31, 2016.

In response to tenants' request for a copy of the application and extension to respond, the DRA mailed to tenants in June 2016 a Request for Access to Public Records form with instructions to complete the form and mail it back to the DHCR within 10 days. The notice advised tenants that failure to respond within 10 days could result in processing of the MCI application without further notice. At that time, the DRA also gave tenants a 30-day extension to respond further. On July 14, 2016, the DHCR mailed a copy of the MCI application to one of the tenants and permitted 20 days to respond. The DHCR advised tenants in that notice to submit any further extension request directly to the DRA. No further response or extension requests were submitted by tenants.

The DRA then granted landlord's application on Aug. 11, 2016. Tenants didn't explain in their PAR why a response wasn't submitted to the DRA. 

212 East 122nd St. Tenant Association: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. EV410014RT (11/13/19) [2-pg. doc.]