RENT REDUCTION ORDERED

Fire Escape Was Defective

March 21, 2014    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents based on findings that the vestibule door lock and building fire exit weren't being maintained....

Dirty Hallway Carpeting Not a Minor Condition

March 21, 2014    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services based on dirty or soiled carpeting in the building's hallways. The DRA ruled for tenants, finding that landlord failed to maintain janitorial services,...

Window Guards Not Installed at Time of DHCR Inspection

March 21, 2014    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in services based on landlord's removal of window guards. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced his rent. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that, at the...

Landlord Can't Collect Electricity Surcharge

March 21, 2014    

Tenant complained of rent overcharge. On Jan. 7, 2005, his building left the Mitchell-Lama program and became rent stabilized. Under Mitchell-Lama, the building was electrical inclusion and tenants were charged an...

Tenant Lost Gas Service Due to Gas Leak Shut-Off

February 18, 2014    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in services in May 2012 after cooking gas was shut off to her apartment. Landlord didn't answer the complaint. The DRA ruled for tenant in October 2012 and reduced...

Intercom System Still Defective

February 18, 2014    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services based on a defective intercom bell/buzzer system. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord later applied for rent restoration based on...

Building Entry Door Lock Was Defective

January 15, 2014    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord appealed and lost. DHCR inspection showed that the building door lock was...

Landlord Changed Lock on Community Room Door

January 15, 2014    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services after landlord changed the lock to the door of the building's community room and required tenants to gain access through the building...

Building's Public Area Conditions Weren't Minor

January 15, 2014    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that the cited conditions were de...

Landlord Didn't Cure Vermin Condition in Tenant's Apartment

January 15, 2014    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in required services based on vermin infestation. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced her rent. Landlord later applied for rent restoration based on the restoration...

Landlord Discontinued Electrical Inclusion Without DHCR Permission

January 14, 2014    

Sixty-nine tenants, rent stabilized and rent controlled, complained of a reduction in building-wide services because landlord discontinued electrical inclusion without prior permission from the DHCR. The DRA ruled...

HPD Order Setting Rents Didn't Override DHCR Rent Reduction Order

December 16, 2013    

Landlord sued to evict nine tenants for nonpayment in consolidated proceedings. In each case, tenants claimed that the amount of rent sought was incorrect. In 1993, the DRA had issued a rent reduction order based on...