Landlord asked the DHCR in 2016 for a ruling on the legal regulated rent for an apartment. Landlord claimed that the apartment occupant had been the building's janitor until his employment was terminated in...
A rent-stabilized tenant's son complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer him a renewal lease after tenant moved out of the apartment. The DRA ruled against the son, who appealed and lost. The DRA had...
Tenant asked the DHCR for a ruling on her regulatory status, claiming that she was subject to rent stabilization. The DRA ruled for tenant and set her legal regulated rent at $1,190.
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on installation of new windows building-wide. The DRA ruled for landlord, finding it had replaced 518 windows in the building as well as nine windows in the...
Landlord of a large apartment complex containing 35 buildings applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes at 12 buildings, based on installation of new roofs, facade restoration, and related engineering fees. The DRA...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on building-wide rewiring. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that landlord wasn't maintaining the building at the time it...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent increases based on elevator upgrading. The DRA ruled against landlord on Dec. 17, 2021. Landlord appealed and won. Before filing a Petition for Administrative Review (PAR),...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent increases based on installation of a new roof. The DRA ruled against landlord because there was an outstanding building-wide rent reduction order in effect. The DHCR had...
On Dec. 22, 2023, NYS Governor Hochul signed into law State Senate Bill 2980-C, the long-awaited amendments to the the Rental Stabilization Law, ETPA, and rent control laws. As pointed out in in her "Approval...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2019. Tenant had moved into the unit in 2018 under a vacancy lease with a legal regulated rent of $2,059 and a preferential rent of $1,725. Among...
The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) conducted an investigation of an apartment to determine its legal regulated rent (LRR). When landlord failed to respond to a 2016 TPU subpoena for rent records, TPU...
After a rent-stabilized tenant died in 2019, landlord offered the remaining apartment occupant a new lease that included vacancy and longevity rent increases. The new tenant claimed that he was a successor tenant and...
