Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of aluminum siding to the building exterior. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenants appealed and lost. While several tenants initially complained of leakage...
The DRA granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on elevator upgrading and an elevator bulkhead. Tenant appealed and argued that he should get a credit against the retroactive rent increase because...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of a heat timer. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the heat timer was a necessary installation because the old...
The DHCR granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes. Landlord, which was the managing agent of the holder of unsold shares in a co-op building, filed an Article 78 appeal, challenging the effective date of...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on pointing and waterproofing. The DHCR ruled for landlord in part but vacated a percentage of the total rent increase and ordered a refund to rents collected from all...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of a new boiler/burner. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding its application untimely. Landlord had filed its application more than two years after...
The DRA granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on pointing and lintel replacement. Tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that the lintels were only partially replaced. But the work qualified...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on building-wide rewiring. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. The DOB sign-off obtained by landlord showed that the electrical work hadn't been...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on a new entrance door and facade restoration. The DRA ruled for landlord in part, disallowing the amount of the facade work cost that was greater than the amount of the...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on pointing and waterproofing. The DRA ruled for landlord except that he disallowed the amount of the claimed cost that was over and above the original contract amount. The...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on electrical upgrading work. The DRA ruled against landlord because it had stated in a letter to tenants that no rent increase would result from that work. Landlord appealed...
Landlord applied in 2007 for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of a new boiler. The DRA ruled against landlord because the prior boiler hadn't outlived its useful life and landlord had received an MCI...
