A New Rochelle tenant filed a complaint with the DHCR seeking a rent reduction based on a reduction in required services. In response, landlord argued that the apartment wasn't rent stabilized. The DRA then...
Prior landlord filed an application (Form RS-3 Application) with the DHCR in 2004 to determine whether its building was exempt from rent stabilization. In 2007, the DRA closed the case without action due to the prior...
Tenant asked the DHCR in January 2020 for an administrative determination regarding tenant's rent-regulated status and his apartment's legal rent. Landlord claimed that the building wasn't rent stabilized...
Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify building-wide services for rent-regulated tenants in its building, by eliminating three elevator operators with shifts running from 4 p.m. to 12 a.m., and replacing...
The DHCR's Rent Administrator approved landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on an electrical upgrade. Tenant appealed and lost. Tenant claimed that the installation of seven meters included in...
Tenant complained in 2017 that landlord failed to provide heat and hot water because it had converted the central boiler/hot water system to individual apartment-based heat/hot water systems in 2016. Landlord did so...
An apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer her a rent-stabilized renewal lease after tenant died. She claimed she was the "daughter" and "primary health care attendant...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained that landlord refused to renew his lease. Tenant attached a copy of landlord's lease nonrenewal notice based on its claim of tenant's nonprimary residence. The DRA ruled for...
In 2017, the DHCR's Rent Administrator granted landlord's MCI rent increase application based on landlord's installation of a new roof, pointing, waterproofing, parapet, and sidewalk shed. Some tenants...
The grandson of rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that he had succession rights but that landlord refused to offer him a renewal lease after tenant died. In response, landlord claimed it did offer the...