Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify services to tenant's apartment in order to seal the kitchen window of the apartment and install an exhaust system vent. The DRA ruled for landlord, provided that...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. The DRA correctly found that the DOB...
Landlord applied for a ruling from the DHCR that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation. Landlord said that it bought the vacant building in 2021 and performed gut...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to a substantial rehabilitation landlord claimed was completed between 1978 and 1981. The DRA ruled against landlord.
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of new windows. The DRA ruled for landlord in part, but excluded the cost of new hallway windows based on a finding that those windows weren't fire rated...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new boiler and burner. The installation involved a conversion of the building's heating system from #6 fuel oil to #2 fuel oil and gas....
(Decision submitted by Jessi Maduro, Esq., of the Manhattan law firm of Borah Goldstein Altschuler Nahins & Goidel, P.C., who represented the landlord.)
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of a rent overcharge in 2018 that he argued resulted from landlord's claimed individual apartment improvement (IAI) costs. Landlord agreed there was an overcharge and refunded...
A Yonkers rent-stabilized tenant filed a specific rent overcharge complaint with the DHCR in 2018. He argued that his 2015 vacancy lease set forth a legal regulated rent (LRR) of $957 per month and a preferential...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding that the base rent date was June 1, 2011, which was six years prior to the filing of tenant's complaint and finding...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in February 2019. The DRA ruled for tenant and found a total overcharge of $1,864. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant questioned landlord's claim that it spent $...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR in 2017 of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding a total overcharge of $5,120 with triple damages. But, since tenant owed landlord $14,975 in back rent, no...
