NYS DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL

Tenant Filed Fair Market Rent Appeal More Than 20 Years Too Late

November 24, 2024    

Tenant filed a fair market rent appeal (FMRA) in 2019, claiming improper deregulation of his apartment in 1999. The DRA ruled against tenant and found that the apartment had been deregulated on June 21, 1999, when...

Rent-Controlled Tenant's Maximum Collectible Rent Remained Frozen

November 24, 2024    

Rent-controlled tenant complained to the DHCR in 2023 of rent overcharge. He claimed that landlord charged illegal fees and failed to comply with a 1991 rent reduction order. Tenant claimed that he was currently...

DHCR Can't Decide Tenant's Claim That Unit's Co-op Exemption Was Invalid

November 24, 2024    

Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2021 of rent overcharge. The DHCR consolidated that complaint with three lease violation complaints also filed by tenant. The DRA ruled that tenant's apartment wasn't subject...

Tenant, Represented by an Attorney, Can Withdraw His PAR of DHCR Order

November 24, 2024    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, who then filed a Petition for Administrative Review (PAR). Later, by letter from tenant's attorney, the tenant...

Landlord Can Replace Manually Operated Elevator with Self-Service Elevator

November 24, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for permission to modify building-wide services by converting a manually operated elevator to a fully automatic self-service elevator and eliminating the manual elevator operator. The DRA...

Two Buildings Were Horizontal Multiple Dwelling Subject to Rent Stabilization

November 24, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR in 2020 for a ruling that its two small buildings, each containing three apartments, were separate and not subject to rent regulation. In response, tenants claimed that the two buildings...

Landlord Didn't Show That 75 Percent of Building Systems Were Replaced

November 24, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent regulation based on substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that landlord hadn't proved that the...

Building Wasn't in Substandard Condition Before Claimed Sub Rehab

November 24, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR, seeking a determination that its building was exempt from rent regulation due to substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that landlord failed to prove that...

RFAI Returned to DHCR Indicated Daughter Didn't Live in Apartment

November 24, 2024    

An apartment occupant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR, claiming that she had lived in a rent-stabilized apartment since 1994 and that landlord failed to sign and return a renewal lease to her for the...

Building Was Substantially Rehabbed in Accordance with Rules in Effect in February 2023

November 24, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent regulation based on substantial rehabilitation. Landlord bought the building in 2022 and did the sub rehab work between April 2022 and...

Building Constructed Before 1974 and Rehabbed Wasn't Subject to Rent Stabilization

November 24, 2024    

Building tenants applied to the DHCR for a determination of the building's rent regulatory status. They claimed that the building was built before 1974, contained at least six units, and was rehabilitated with...

Landlord Can't Amend DHCR Registrations to Correct Apartment Status

November 24, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR to request amendment of annual rent registrations for an apartment for the years 1990 to 2023. Landlord claimed that the apartment's status was incorrectly registered as rent...