RENT RESTORED

Tenant Fails to Admit DHCR Inspector for No-Access Inspection

September 23, 2024    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in required services. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced her rent. Landlord later filed an application to restore rent based on restoration of services. The DRA...

Rent Restoration Date Corrected Based on Date Tenant Returned After Fire

March 26, 2024    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of a reduction in apartment services after a building fire forced her to vacate her apartment on Nov. 12, 2016. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced her rent to $1 per...

Rent Reduced in 1987 Was Restored as of 2020

March 9, 2024    

Prior tenant complained to the DHCR of a reduction in services after a fire rendered his apartment uninhabitable. The DRA ruled for tenant in 1987 and reduced and froze his rent. Landlord applied for rent restoration...

DHCR Properly Restored Tenant's Rent After Tenant Refused to Give Access for Repairs

November 27, 2023    

The DHCR's Rent Administrator issued a rent reduction order for rent-stabilized tenant's apartment in 2021 based on a reduction in services. Landlord later filed an application to restore rent, claiming that...

Landlord Points Out New Conditions Mistakenly Cited by Inspector

October 27, 2023    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in building-wide services based on conditions in the ground-floor hallway walls and stairways. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced his rent. Landlord later applied...

DHCR Rent Restoration Made Effective on the Date DOB Vacate Order Was Rescinded

July 26, 2023    

Rent-controlled tenant complained to the DHCR in September 2020 after DOB issued a Vacate Order based on a July 30, 2020, fire at the building. Tenant said that, as a result of the fire, she had no access to the...

Tenant Claims Landlord Didn't Let Him Move Back into Apartment

March 21, 2023    

Rent-stabilized tenant filed a rent reduction application after a fire in December 2020 resulted in an HPD Vacate Order for tenant's Apt. No. 3. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced his rent to $1 per month while...

Rent Restored After HPD and DOB Confirm Vacate Order Was Rescinded

June 23, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenants complained to the DHCR of a reduction in required services after HPD issued a Vacate Order for their apartment because it became uninhabitable after a fire. The DRA ruled for tenants and...

Tenant Didn't Provide Access for DHCR Inspection

June 22, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of a reduction in services based on defects in the sink faucets and a light fixture. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced his rent. Landlord later filed an application to...

Tenant Denied Access and Cancelled No-Access Inspection

June 22, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of a reduction in required services in her apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced her rent. Landlord later applied for rent restoration and argued that tenant...

Rent Restored Despite Tenant's Complaints About New Elevator

September 24, 2021    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a reduction in building-wide services based on defective elevator service. The DRA ruled for tenant in 2010 and reduced her rent. Landlord later sought rent restoration based on...

DHCR Incorrectly Added Corrected Conditions to Order Denying Rent Restoration

March 29, 2021    

Tenants complained of a reduction in building-wide services. The DRA ruled for tenants and reduced their rents, based on five separate findings concerning common area conditions that weren't maintained. Landlord...