RENT CONTROL COVERAGE

Apartment in Mixed-Use Building Was Subject to Rent Control

August 13, 2014    

Landlord asked the DHCR to determine tenant's rent regulatory status. Landlord claimed that tenant was unregulated. Tenant claimed that he had lived with his parents and that they were rent-controlled tenants,...

Tenant in Former J-51 Building Not Subject to Deregulation

August 13, 2014    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-controlled apartment in 2010. Tenant claimed that her household income was below the deregulation threshold for both 2008 and 2009....

Tenant Is Subject to Rent Control

July 18, 2014    

Tenant asked the DHCR for a ruling that he was subject to rent stabilization. Landlord claimed that tenant was rent controlled. The DRA ruled against tenant, who appealed and lost. There was a rent control...

Landlord and Tenant Agree Tenant Is Rent Controlled

March 21, 2014    

Landlord and tenant asked the DHCR to determine the apartment's status and legal rent. The DRA ruled that the apartment was rent stabilized and set the legal rent at $500, based on a 2011 agreement between the...

Tenant Is Rent Controlled by Law Despite Years of Rent-Stabilized Leases

December 13, 2013    

Tenant claimed that she was rent controlled and asked the DHCR for a ruling. Landlord, who bought the building in 1996, claimed that the apartment had long been registered as rent stabilized. The DRA ruled for tenant...

Tenant Was Rent Controlled as Result of 1983 CAB Order

December 13, 2013    

A deceased tenant's wife asked the DHCR to rule on her rent-regulatory status. Tenant had moved into the apartment in March 1968. The wife moved in with tenant in 1974. Tenant died in 2002, and the wife remained...

Tenant in Two-Family House with Store Is Rent Controlled

December 12, 2013    

Landlord asked the DHCR to rule on whether tenant was rent controlled. Tenant lived in a two-apartment building that contained a store on the ground floor. Tenant moved into the apartment some time after April 1,...

Tenants Remain Regulated After J-51 Benefits Expire

September 19, 2013    

Landlord asked the DHCR for an Order of Decontrol for each of the building's 10 tenants. Landlord claimed that a prior landlord completed a substantial rehabilitation of the building in 1975 and obtained a new...

Tenant's Daughter Claims She's Rent Controlled

September 19, 2013    

Landlord asked the DHCR to determine tenant's status. Tenant claimed that she had lived in the apartment since before July 1, 1971, and therefore was rent controlled. The DRA ruled for tenant, and landlord...

Tenant's Apartment Is Rent Controlled

September 19, 2013    

Landlord asked the DHCR to determine if tenant's apartment was rent stabilized, and whether the current tenant was the rightful tenant. Landlord had bought tenant's apartment during the building's co-op...

1958 Records Show Tenant Is Rent Controlled, Not Stabilized

August 8, 2013    

Tenant complained of a reduction in garage services. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced her rent. Tenant appealed because the DRA's order stated that tenant was rent stabilized. Tenant claimed that she was rent...

Long-Term Tenant Proves He's Rent Controlled

March 12, 2013    

Landlord asked the DHCR to rule on tenant's rent regulatory status. Landlord claimed that tenant moved into the apartment after June 30, 1971, and therefore was rent stabilized, not rent controlled. The DRA ruled...