Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of building-wide rewiring. The DRA ruled for landlord, and tenants appealed. Tenants claimed that some of the room counts listed in landlord...
The DHCR's Rent Administrator granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on building-wide gas re-piping. Tenants appealed and lost. Tenants claimed that the cost for the work claimed by landlord...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes on March 29, 2019, based on exterior building restoration work. The DRA ruled for landlord. However, because the HSTPA amended the rent stabilization and rent control laws...
Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on installation of windows and an intercom system. The DRA ruled against landlord because the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) amended the rent...
Effective Nov. 21, 2022, Chapter 619 of the Laws of the State of New York of 2022 prohibits owners of rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments in "electrical exclusion" buildings from the continued...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2017. She had moved into the apartment in August 2016 at an initial rent of $2,850. Landlord claimed that the apartment was vacancy deregulated when tenant moved in...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained of rent overcharge based on landlord's failure to comply with a prior DHCR rent reduction order. The DRA found that the legal base date rent was $1,135.18 per month. But the base...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge, and claimed that his apartment had been fraudulently rented for commercial use before he moved in. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the base date rent four...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant after finding that the apartment had been vacancy-deregulated in 2009. Tenant appealed and lost. Landlord proved the deregulation through...
Tenants complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge in 2018. The DRA ruled against tenants, who appealed and lost. The DHCR found that the DRA had properly determined that the apartment was properly deregulated more...
Tenant asked the DHCR for an administrative determination (AD) that his apartment was rent stabilized and to set the legal rent. Tenant claimed that he moved into the unit in 2008 and that landlord had fraudulently...
In 2016, tenant asked the DHCR for an administrative determination (AD) that his apartment was subject to rent stabilization. Tenant complained that landlord claimed the apartment was rent controlled. The DRA ruled...
