Landlord applied in May 2019 for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new boiler/burner. The DRA ruled against landlord because fewer than 35 percent of the building's tenants were rent stabilized. Effective...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2020 of rent overcharge and unlawful apartment deregulation. Landlord claimed that the former rent-controlled tenant moved out in 2002, that landlord then performed $45,500 in...
An unregulated tenant complained to the DHCR in December 2019 that he was specifically overcharged because he paid three months' rent at $2,600 per month when he moved into his apartment in July 2019. He claimed...
TPU conducted an audit of individual apartment improvements (IAIs) made to a rent-stabilized apartment and found an overcharge. The TPU directed landlord to reset the registered $2,850 rent at $1,715, refund the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding a total overcharge of $3,361. When triple damages were added, and the amount of a prior refund deducted, the total...
White Plains tenants complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenants and dismissed their complaint, finding that the apartment had been vacancy-deregulated in 2006 before tenants moved in....
Apartment licensee Joseph complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA terminated the proceeding because the licensee's initial occupancy was contingent upon her employment with Maimonides Medical Center (...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a determination that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation of the property in 1989. The DRA ruled for landlord since the sub rehab took...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a determination that its building was exempt from rent stabilization as the result of a substantial rehabilitation in 1989. The DRA ruled for landlord but found that tenants of four...
A tenant filed an application with the DHCR, seeking an administrative determination that the building he lived in was subject to rent stabilization. He said that the building was built before 1974, contained at...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify services at a rent-stabilized building. Landlord sought to modify or substitute the old hard-wired intercom at the building with a new phone-based system. The DRA...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of gas piping. The DRA ruled for landlord in 2022 and approved rent increases in amounts based on HSTPA amendments to the Rent Stabilization Law. Landlord...
