Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on elevator upgrading. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that landlord's application was untimely. Landlord appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that its application...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on concrete resurfacing with related engineering services. The DRA ruled for landlord in part but excluded costs of certain items of work that were deemed ineligible....
Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on installation of a new boiler/burner, asbestos removal, asbestos air monitor, boiler control system, and chimney. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed...
Five rent-stabilized tenants filed separate individual service reduction complaints with the DHCR based on replacement of their cooking gas service with electric cooking ranges in place of gas stovetops. The DRA...
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-stabilized tenant filed a service reduction complaint with the DHCR after a fire in his apartment resulted in an HPD vacate order in April 2022. The DRA ruled for tenant and reduced his monthly rent to $1 until...
Tenants' daughter filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR. She had moved into her current apartment with her parents in 2007. Tenant and her father signed a renewal lease for the two-year term between...
Apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that he was the rent-stabilized tenant's son and that landlord refused to give him a renewal lease after tenant died. Landlord argued that the son moved into the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2018. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund $21,443, including triple damages. Landlord appealed and lost. The DRA correctly determined that...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of the apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant, found that the unit was rent- stabilized, and directed landlord to file annual rent registrations...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2017. The DRA found that the base date rent was lawful but that there were subsequent overcharges. The DRA ruled for tenant and ordered landlord to refund the...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge in early 2019. The DRA found that the four-year base date rent of $2,050 per month was legal but froze that rent based on landlord's failure to file annual...
