RENEWAL LEASES

Landlord Can't Remove Ex-Spouse's Name from Lease after Tenants' Divorce

April 25, 2024    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of lease violations. She claimed that landlord refused to give her a corrected renewal lease to include her DRIE rent exemption, failed to include her security deposit on...

Renewal of Rent-Stabilized Lease During Nonpayment Case Didn't Create New Tenancy

March 27, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonpayment of rent. While that case was pending tenant's lease expired. Landlord offered a renewal lease, but tenant failed to sign it. Landlord then started a...

Rent-Stabilized Renewal Lease Offer Without Previously Included Preferential Rent Was Improper

January 22, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for refusing to sign a renewal lease offered by landlord. Tenant claimed that the renewal offer was improper. The court agreed and dismissed the case. Tenant's...

Trial Needed to Determine Whether Landlord's Renewal Lease Offer Was Valid

December 20, 2023    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant based on tenant's failure to sign a renewal lease for the apartment. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case, for permission to conduct discovery with respect to...

Renewal Lease Offered to Month-to-Month Tenant Vitiated Termination Notice

November 26, 2023    

Landlord sued to evict month-to-month tenant after serving a 90-day termination notice. Tenant asked the court to dismiss the case because landlord offered him a renewal lease following service of the nine-day notice...

Landlord Disavowed Nonrenewal Notice by Sending Renewal Lease Offer Earlier

October 27, 2023    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. The court denied tenant's request to dismiss the case without trial. Tenant appealed and won. Landlord's offer to renew tenant's...

Tenant's Claim That Landlord Forged Renewal Lease Dismissed

October 24, 2023    

In December 2021, tenant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR, claiming that landlord failed to give her a fully executed copy of a rent-stabilized renewal lease she signed for the renewal term commencing...

DHCR Had No Authority to Rule on Tenant's Lease Renewal Complaint

September 22, 2023    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord failed to offer him a renewal lease on the same terms and conditions as his expiring lease. Tenant specified that the temporary lease rider for a...

Renewal Lease Dispute Resolved Through DHCR Lease Violation Proceeding

August 28, 2023    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2021 that landlord failed to send her a renewal lease. In response, landlord said that this was an oversight, that it had now sent tenant the renewal lease via...

Lease Renewal Complaint to DHCR Dismissed After Tenant Moved Out

August 28, 2023    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained in March 2020 that landlord failed to give her a renewal lease. In March 2021, tenant notified the DHCR that she had moved to a new address and no longer lived in the apartment. The...

HSTPA Supersedes Prior Settlement Agreement That Phased Out Tenant's Preferential Rent

February 21, 2023    

Rent-stabilized tenant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR in April 2022. His renewal lease commencing May 1, 2021, had listed a legal regulated rent (LRR) of $1,644.07 per month and a preferential rent (...

Landlord Must Add Tenant's Wife's Name to Rent-Stabilized Renewal Lease

November 22, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenants, a married couple, filed a lease violation complaint with DHCR. They claimed that landlord didn't include the wife's name in its 2021 renewal lease offer and that it failed to deduct a...