LEASES

Tenant Can't Challenge Term of Vacancy Lease After Renewal

December 17, 2013    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge. She questioned the individual apartment improvements that landlord claimed were done. Tenant also complained that landlord hadn't given her the option of a...

Lease Signed Without HPD Approval Was Void

November 18, 2013    

The City of New York owned a building that was net leased to tenants' association under HPD's Tenant Interim Lease (TIL) program. Tenants' association then became the building's landlord. In 2004,...

Lease Rescinded Based on Tenant's Fraud

June 12, 2013    

(Decision submitted by new landlord Skyjam Holding LLC.)

Landlord's Estate Claims Fraud by Managing Agent

May 16, 2013    

The administrator of landlord's estate sued the real estate management company hired by the Public Administrator (PA) for a period ending in 2006, a former employee of that management company, and the DHCR. The...

Long-Term Resident Is Shareholder Entitled to Proprietary Lease

May 16, 2013    

Tenant sued cooperative corporation, seeking a declaration that he was a shareholder entitled to a proprietary lease. Tenant moved into the building in 1982. In 1984, the building converted to cooperative ownership....

Landlord's Sign-In/Sign-Out Rule Unreasonable

November 16, 2012    

Landlord of HUD building sued to evict Section 8 tenant for breaching a material provision of his lease after tenant refused to comply with landlord's sign-in/sign-out procedures at the building. Tenant claimed...