Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a backflow preventer, including engineering costs. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that landlord's MCI application wasn't filed within two...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on elevator upgrading. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that landlord improperly designated his apartment as containing two rooms. Tenant...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on replacement of an HVAC system, including related general construction and engineering costs. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that the work was done on a piecemeal...
The DRA denied landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on cement, stucco, aluminum capping work on a parapet wall, and aluminum air vents. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the entire...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes, and the DRA ruled for landlord in part, granting increases for a garage roof for an underground garage and related costs for a surface parking lot. The DRA disallowed $20,000 for...
The DHCR DRA granted landlord's MCI rent increase application based on rewiring with related wall repair. Tenant appealed and lost. He claimed that no rewiring was performed in his apartment other than new wires...
Landlord cooperative corporation applied for MCI rent hikes to the building's rent-stabilized tenants based on installation of new apartment windows with related window sill replacement and sidewalk bridging...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on an absorption chiller replacement. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the useful life of a prior chiller installation...
The DRA granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new boiler/burner. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant didn't cite any errors by the DRA but simply complained that his...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based a new roof and elevator upgrading. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenants appealed and won in part. The DHCR agreed with tenants that some sections of the roof hadn't been...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of a new garage roof that functioned as a courtyard. The DRA ruled for landlord but disallowed the costs of the garage walls and interior, foundation...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of security cameras at the building. The DRA ruled for landlord and increased rents. Tenants appealed and lost. They argued that the building's...
